G'day,
I am hoping someone can help me.
I thinking about buying an IBM Aptiva E247 or E447 for home.
My intention is to set it up with separate partitions, one for
Windows 98 (ie. PC games for the kids) and one for Linux Redhat 5.2
(ie. for me).
The two models I'm looking at are :
- IBM Aptiva E 247
processor : AMD K6(R) 2/350
graphics : ATI Rage Pro 2X Turbo AGP
- IBM Aptiva E 447
processor : Intel Celeron 400MHz
graphics : Graphics Blaster RIVA 128zx
Before choosing one of the above models, I would like to confirm
that both Linux Redhat 5.2 and XFree86 recognises all the hardware
in these systems and runs well.
I have heard that the installation of Redhat will sometimes freeze
on systems running with an AMD K6 2 processor.
I have also heard that Aptiva audio and internal modem might not
work with Linux.
Can anyone confirm this happening on an IBM Aptiva ?.
Do you know of anyone who runs Redhat on an Aptiva E247 or E447
without any of these probems ?.
Any info would be much greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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