Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-18 Thread George Georgalis
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:20:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:03, George Georgalis wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:59:00AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: by the way, any baddies when it comes to mobo chipset? Nforce chipsets. AFAIK you need a non-free driver to make

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-17 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:59:00AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: by the way, any baddies when it comes to mobo chipset? Nforce chipsets. AFAIK you need a non-free driver to make the LAN chip work. 'in the beginning' there was problems with the VIA IDE controller drivers (ie, my chipset, a year or

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:03, George Georgalis wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:59:00AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: by the way, any baddies when it comes to mobo chipset? Nforce chipsets. AFAIK you need a non-free driver to make the LAN chip work. 'in the beginning' there was problems

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Sandip P Deshmukh [Tue, Jan 14 2003, 10:44:06AM]: AMD if you go with cheap mobo, ram and *especially* power supplies you are asking for trouble. Well, nowadays you don't save much when you compare the price of the whole system. by the way, any baddies when it comes to

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:26, Peter Johnson wrote: I am running a 1.4 Athlon and am finding it fantastic. All I would say is that if you are only going to be running Linux on it avoid XP as the extra instruction searching will slow down (but this is truly marginal in the scheme of most

do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all i have used installed debian on pentium 3 and celeron without much trouble. typically, i have found out that the amd processors are less expensive than the intel ones. so, for a new pc was toying with the idea of going in for an amd processor. athlon or duron? any feedback if the

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Klaus Thielking-Riechert
Sandip, On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:30:05PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: any feedback if the sailing with amd processors is as smooth as intel ones. I have Woody running on an Duron 700 without any trouble. Ciao, Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread nate
Sandip P Deshmukh said: hello all i have used installed debian on pentium 3 and celeron without much trouble. typically, i have found out that the amd processors are less expensive than the intel ones. so, for a new pc was toying with the idea of going in for an amd processor. athlon or

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 05:00, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all i have used installed debian on pentium 3 and celeron without much trouble. typically, i have found out that the amd processors are less expensive than the intel ones. so, for a new pc was toying with the idea of going in

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:30:05PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all i have used installed debian on pentium 3 and celeron without much trouble. typically, i have found out that the amd processors are less expensive than the intel ones. so, for a new pc was toying with the idea of

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Sandip == Sandip P Deshmukh Sandip writes: Sandip any feedback if the sailing with amd processors is as Sandip smooth as intel ones. Makes no real difference. I've been running Debian on an XP2000 Athlon as my primary desktop for a year now. AMD or Intel, it never made a difference

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:31:02PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: According to one of my colleagues, AMD CPU's are indeed cheaper, but unless you a add high-quality motherboard, fan, powersupply, ... they can be unstable. If you do add them, he says the total system cost is about the same as

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Peter Johnson
I am running a 1.4 Athlon and am finding it fantastic. All I would say is that if you are only going to be running Linux on it avoid XP as the extra instruction searching will slow down (but this is truly marginal in the scheme of most desktops). On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 22:26, Klaus

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:30:05PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all i have used installed debian on pentium 3 and celeron without much trouble. typically, i have found out that the amd processors are less expensive than the intel ones. so, for a new pc was toying with the idea of

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Fraser Campbell
On January 13, 2003 06:00 am, the fabulous Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: i have used installed debian on pentium 3 and celeron without much trouble. typically, i have found out that the amd processors are less expensive than the intel ones. so, for a new pc was toying with the idea of going in

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:57:41PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: On January 13, 2003 06:00 am, the fabulous Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: i have used installed debian on pentium 3 and celeron without much trouble. typically, i have found out that the amd processors are less expensive than