Re: tlug: TurboLinux 1.2 USA released

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Manuel Chakravarty wrote:

> > Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
> >                <sstone@example.com>
> > Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
> > http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
> > http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com
> 
> I just had a look at the TurboLinux homepage.  A statement
> that, say, startled me somewhat is
> 
>   Hardware Support - TurboLinux supports just about every
>   single piece of hardware that is sold for Intel PCs today. 
>   If you have a question about a specific piece of hardware,
>   email sstone@example.com and ask about it.
> 
> That's a rather bold claim and surely would make TurboLinux
> the most attractive distribution, but I am a bit unsure
> whether you can stand up to it.  For example, there are
> quite a number of graphic accelerators that are not properly
> supported by XFree86.  Do you mean by support ``you have to
> run a 1152x900 true colour display in 640x400 plain VGA mode
> with 16 colours'' or do you *really* support this kind of
> hardware? 

It is a bold claim -- so far, however, it's proven to be true.  Plus, the
USA version comes with a 30-day guarantee :)  Besides, I did say 'just
about', which covers my *** a fair bit :) 

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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