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NEW PC and LINUX

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From: nigel delfabbro
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 00:00
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Hi, I need a little advice:

I have Linux running on an old 386.I am planning to buy a Pentium 90 or 
100 so I can run X-Windows. I will be purchasing a PCI based Mother board 
and Video card as well as 32 MEG of RAM. I have  a pentium 75 at work 
which is PCI based. However I have been unable to get Linux to work 
properly with this machine. So could someone out there who is 
successfully running LINUX on a pentium, tell me what motherboard, video 
card and BIOS I should try to get with my new  machine. I don't want to 
spend $3-4 thousand and find that LINUX doesn't work with it.

A lot of the information I have read seems to apply to American suppliers 
of hardware. However if the chips in the cards and boards are the same, 
it shouldn't really matter who I buy the components from. Or should I 
only be looking at certain manufacturers.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Nigel.
nigelfab@adam.com.au 
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From: nigelfab@adam.com.au (nigel delfabbro)
Subject: NEW PC and LINUX
Date: 1996/02/14
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