On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, S. Barret Dolph wrote: > Well, my problems have much to do with hardware and it is time to get a new > box. My old box ran for 6 years with Mandrake and never crashed. (X-windows > crashed when setting up Matrox 450 though.) My question is what hardware is > good to avoid. I only use my computer for work, no games, but I am on it at > least 6 hours or more a day. I care mostly about stability and don't really > care too much about speed. So more to the point are any of you aware of > hardware that is a nightmare to install. Or a site which can help. >
If you want stability don't use the latest and greatest hardware (Video card and motherboard chipset). It is ussually good to avoid Nvidia because they have usually binary only drivers and they are not stable. > Cordially, > S. Barret Dolph > Taipei Taiwan > - Calin -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in". Kim Alm on a.s.r. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
