On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, George Vieira generated:
>I'm not familiar with these performance CPUs and graphics that I have seen
>may not be what they really do so I'm asking for your advice and know if
>Linux would be happy with any of these or not.. possibly motherboards
>too..??
Well, what a coincidence! My new box has just arrived, it's an 800MHz
Athlon CPU on an ABit KA7-100 mobo. I tell you what, this is the best
thing ever! At my current upgrade ratio, the next chip will be about
3.2GHz ;)
But seriously, I don't think you could have any problems with new
hardware, the latest kernel supports most everything out there, and
anything not directly in the kernel (like the EIDE chipset on this mobo)
has patches floating around the 'net. I'm using kernel 2.2.16 atm, i'll
be getting 2.2.17 RSN. And I'm damn sure that the 2.4 series is going
to be even better on new hardware support.
I say go with an Athlon ;)
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