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Christian Stieber (stieber@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE) wrote:
: In comp.os.linux.hardware Tim Joseph <tim@josep.demon.co.uk> wrote:

: > I'm about to purchase a new PC from Mesh Plc (UK). They have a number of
: > configurations, and so I was wondering if any of the bits and pieces are
: > been successfully used under Linux already (I'm thinking of using
: > Slackware 3.5).

: As always, there are several places to check --- namely the "supported
: hardware" sections of the various distributions. I generally recommend
: http://www.suse.de/cdb/english/, since they also include they XSuse
: X-servers.

You would be better to buy from a supplier who would install Linux for you.
Then they would have no recourse to "non-standard" software as an excuse for
failure.

: Some general comments:

: > 2. Video Card

: Is generally a problem. Make sure you check the "supported hardware".
: Using an unsupported board just sucks.

: > 3. Audio Card

: Is also a problem, but much less (since it doesn't really matter whether
: the board is supported or not --- your system will work just fine).

: > 5. Hard drive (Ultra ATA DMA) and CDROM are both standard (IDE?).

: IDE is not a standard :-) Anyway, it's the adapter that counts, not
: the actual drive (at least for SCSI, but I think it's the same for IDE).

SCSI is *much* better than IDE - particularly when multi-user/tasking.

: > 6. Monitor

: Doesn't matter at all, as long as it matches the capabilities of the gfx
: board.

: > 7. Memory is "Ultra Fast" (100Mhz?) SDRAM.

: Doesn't matter to Linux.

: Christian

Geoff
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