yeah the biggest thing to pay attention to is what your motherboard will be able to handle. as far as 'what will linux be able to run?', the only things you might really want to do some heavy research on before you go and buy them are a) video cards b) sound cards c) anything to do with wireless/bluetooth ive never really had trouble with linux and lower level stuff like ram and hard drives, but video cards are notoriously a pain if you dont research beforehand! id say go with an nvidia for videocards, it seems that theres a lot larger linux community using those chipsets.
also, again your link points to a saved wish list. if its under "public wish list" then you would have given it a title that we could search for. if you cant find it under public wish lists, just spam us with a list of links to the items. On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jay Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:14 PM, John Mort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's pretty much what I'm doing, but like I said, it's been awhile > > for me so I figured if I threw my list out there someone could warn me > > if Corsair make bad RAM or Gigabyte make bad motherboards, or if > > LITE-ON optical drives flat out refuse to run on linux. Just any of > > that reputation-based info I've missed out on in my financial > > inability to keep up in the hardware game. ;-) > > > > > > I'm seeing "List Details" and nothing else basically at that link in your > previous post, which for some reason required me to log in to my Newegg > account. None of those brands raise any flags to me (I've had several > good > Lite-on optical drives), but the thing to worry about is what kind of RAM > the board supports. Brand to brand isn't the issue so much as size > limitations, frequency limitations, etc. It's the trickiest part of > building your own computer, but carefully checking the specs should give > you > the answer easily enough. > > -Jay > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing > Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way > May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using > Linux > Jun 4 - TBD > Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) > _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux Jun 4 - TBD Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative)
