Subj : Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
To   : Gamgee
From : fusion
Date : Fri Jun 07 2024 12:54 pm

On 06 Jun 2024, Gamgee said the following...
 
 Ga> Yes, I also recall fairly frequent problems with Xwindows and graphics 
 Ga> cards back in those days.  I liked Mandrake quite a bit and then 

i remember configuring XFree86 came with a giant warning about how it could
damage your monitor.. spent an awful lot of time one year tracking down the
exact specs for some chinese 19" monitor to attempt both 1600x1200 and 75hz
(iirc) paranoid i might damage something.. that and.. the video card driver was compiled into the X server itself? something like that. weird times :)

on the OS/2 side we just bought from a list. not on the list? too bad :)

 Ga> Been there, too.  Haha, yeah that stuff was painful.  I used to even 
 Ga> configure and compile custom kernels (on Slackware), thinking I could 
 Ga> squeeze out more "performance"...  Maybe it did, and in those days I was 
 Ga> on fairly weak hardware so it helped, and was a lot of fun actually.  
 Ga> But also a lot of work, and I don't bother with that any more.

i used to have to do that for an IBM server i had.. for the SCSI raid controller.. that whole machine was a giant waste of electricity. did feel cool the one and only time one of the power supplies failed and i hot swapped it out. but yeah, i think i studied the kernel config options for a while before deciding to just use the slackware one as a template and then add the extra stuff.

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