Xarath,
The main things you want to watch out for is modems and video cards.
Make sure you do not get a winmodem. Make sure that is a real hardware
modem.
All external modems will work and most that don't say "winmodem" or "for use
with Window 95/98" etc.
Check out:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-6.html
There should be a list of supported modems somewhere, but I can't seem to
find it.
Also make sure you video card is supported by Xfree86. Most any video card
should would in vga for the console, if you would like a graphical
environment your card has to be supported, most are. Check out
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.5/README3.html#3 for a list for supported video
cards/chipsets under Xfree86 version 3.3.5.
If you sound card isn't support in the kernel you will have to get some
drivers for it at www.opensound.com check out
http://www.opensound.com/osshw.html for a list of sound cards they support.
All IDE and EIDE on board controllers and hard drivers/CD-ROM drives are
support. Most SCSI cards are supported and if you can get the SCSI card to
work, then anything attached to it, CD-ROMS, hard drives, tape drives,
should work. Linux has allot of support of SCSI cards, so about anyone you
get should be support, you may wish to check it against the hardware HOWTO
and drop a quick note to the group before you get one though.
If you get one of those sound cards + CD-ROM drives in one, which has a
property controller for the CD-ROM, you may wish to check the hardware HOWTO
or drop a line to the group to make sure it will work. Personally I would
recommend against that type of things, even though there is support for
(some of) them.
I have not had any personal experience with the AMD K6-III CPU, but I do
know that they will work under Linux. At home I run a K6-2 CPU at 300 MHz
and couldn't be happier with it, it is extermely fast and stable.
The one thing that I highly recommend is allot of SDRAM, the more the
better. If you plain the run a GUI system, I would recommend atleast 64
megs. It will run on allot lower, I just have a personal hang up about the
system always swapping. If you can get 128Megs or above, I would highly
recommend it. Linux tries to use all available main memory in your machine
and the more you have, the faster the machine runs. You can get by with 8
megs (or less).
1-2-3 Gig drive should be enough for the install of your distro. If you
plan to rack up a huge web page or a ton of mp3 you could go on a little
more roomer hard drive. I got slackware on a 1 gig drive and 800 megs are
free and other I got suse 5.3 on a 2.1 gig and 1 gig is free. Your results
with vary on which distro and what programs you wish to install, but most ,
if not all distro will fit into 1 gig or less. That is the just the base
distro, that doesn't include user files, like mail, graphic images, novels
in progress, etc.
Some general links to hardware sites are included below.
Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html
Suse Linux hardware database (if it is support under Suse it should be
supported under any distribution, since they do run the same Linux kernel
and modules)
http://cdb.suse.de/cgi-bin/scdb?HTML=ENGLISH/cdb_listtemplates/menu.htm&LANG
=ENGLISH
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: Xarath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 12:16 PM
Subject: Linux Hardware
> Hi!
>
> What hardware would you, gurus, recommanded for a new home PC?
> I don't play games at all so no boosted 3D stuff.
>
> What do you think of AMD K6-III processor?
>
> Thanx,
> Xarath
>
