Sticking it to the man by running Linux is fine, Reeves says, but his customers want machines that are compatible with a wide variety of graphics cards and printers.

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Foreign chips flooding the U.S. market provided gobs of cheap memory for PC graphics boards and laser printers--and, boy, did those two technologies ever chew up the memory!

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Apple and Microsoft made hay with graphics, Canon with laser printers, Adobe with typography languages and 3Com with communications.

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In concert with its Network, the company will also announce Version 7.0 of Red Hat Linux, with several new features including an enhanced version of Xfree86, which offers significantly better 3D graphics support, USB support for printers, mice, keyboards and scanners, OpenSSL for more secure communication over the Web, and a more customizable desktop environment.

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