there are and always will be issues. as always stick to standard hardware for best results. avoid win* stuff(modems especially), most oem systems should be mostly compadible with exception of the modem 90% or so ship with a winmodem as standard, most usually have a hardware modem as an option though. of course its best to buy from a vendor that will tell you 'yes it'll run linux!'. I have found SAG Electronics to be an excellent OEM. they use all top quality stuff, www.sagelec.com they have great prices, but i dont think they offer anything real cheap/low end, most of their stuff is workstation or server class, you may be able to find something for under $1000 though.
cybermax has mostly compadible systems as well one of my friends got an athlon 550 from em last year, only thing he had to swap was the modem. suse 6.3 installed somewhat easily (i had to tweak his X config for his savage4) nate On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Hunter H Marshall wrote: marsha >I'm considering a new computer. I was considering 2, but maybe I'll turn my marsha >100MHZ pentium into a dedicated browser for family needs. marsha > marsha >ANYhoo, does anyone have good/bad experiences with any of the linux hardware marsha >vedors, VALinux, etc? Are the newest machines from Gateway, Dell, etc presenting marsha >any hardware compatibility issues? Strong opinions between regular PC sellers marsha >vs. the linux harwdare sellers? marsha > marsha >This is to run Debian, and maybe win9x. marsha > marsha >Thanks marsha > marsha > hunter marsha > marsha > marsha >-- marsha >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null marsha > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:03pm up 9 days, 43 min, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.13, 0.09
