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"reddevil69" <reddevil69@cox.net> wrote:

> Hi there. I have a question or two if you folks don't mind. I would like to
> migrate to a better, more stable OS for surfing, making music and data cd's as
> well as dvd's,  and importing images ( vhs and photo)  to cd/dvd. As far as
> I'm concerned, the only thing that Windows is good for is my games, probably
> because I'm tired of all the bs (crashes,bugs, holes etc.).  I have a Gigabyte
> GA-7VM400M motherboard with an Athelon XP 2400+ (Thorton). My question then is
> this, What platform do I have (i386, pc98 ? )

i386.

>  and what OS would you recommend for my purposes ( FreeBSD, Red Hat, SUSE?)

FreeBSD.

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