here is a piece of advice. DONT get a TNT gfx card. It has _horrible_ drivers
and btw, in a recent benchmark for linux, they didn't even include it as they
couldn't find a decent set of drivers, which they can compare. NVIDIA was
claiming support for linux, but as we can all see, its something of a commercial
ploy, and it isn't gonna materialize soon. The XFree86 and PI put in quite a bit
of work into the DRI, and NVIDIA plans to write a driver which is _not_ gonna
be on DRI. And, btw, their drivers aren't gonna be OSS. It may not matter to end
users, but unless a company is _encouraged_ to make their drivers OSS, it may
result in more binary-only drivers, and more binary-only apps, and god knows
what trojans are hidden behind them. I'd suggest u go for a 3dfx card. a V3 is
pretty kewl, and if u plan to a wait a bit more go for a V5, as there is plenty
of support for these cards...
As for the HDDs above 20GB. as i said i've got a 17 GB hdd running linux pretty
kewl. the lilo which comes with RH6.1, has some probs if the boot maps are >1024
cylinders, but u can get away by putting a /boot in a seperate partition somewhere
in the begginning of the HDD. Someone on this list claimed that the latest LILO
supports >1024 cyls. so i guess its not a problem anymore...
Nikhil.
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