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Greetings Linux professionals:
I want to buy suse Linux version 8.1 professional
but want to be absolutely sure that I buy the right hardware so my new system
can run flawlessly.
I am very green to this and wanted some input
before I spend some serious dollars on a new compatible system. I want to
buy a mainboard to drive a top of the line Pentium 4 cpu. I also want to
buy a top of the line sound card (like creative's audigy to take advantage of
some of the slick features in suse Linux 8.1 that I have seen on their
website). I did find a mainboard that is on suse Linux 8.1 compatibility
list and looks to be top notch, asus p4b , but
figured that the people on this list could clue me in as to weather this is a
good board
The only kernel I know serves chicken in a bucket
so I can't configure anything.
I have sent e-mail to suse and
asked their advice but to no avail. They can only help me if I
have some sort of product ID which comes with suse Linux 8.1. Hello.....I
haven't bought it yet because I want to see if there is a remote possibility to
make this thing work!
I have tried to use redhat ver. 7.1 and found that
it is not as user friendly as (here it comes) windose and found that a lot of
items on my system weren't compatible. I sure as heck didn't know
what to do with tarballs and the like and using that rpm carp didn't work at
all. With most windose programs, all you have to do is click on ok, yes,
and finish and poof!...done. With Linux you have to know computer
programming just to make the hardware function semi correctly.
It is a windose world. It will be for some
time. I do see that Linux is up and coming but it has to get a heck of a
lot easier for the regular joe blow that doesn't know squat about
computers and be compatible with at least 80% of the hardware.
Educate this aspiring computer nerd. I want
to learn computer programming and use Linux but before I can do this I have to
at least have it working on my computer. I also want to use DSL on it and
use it as a server and have other non Linux pc's tapped into it on a LAN but
don't know if either can be done with what I know about this operating
system.
I know cars (I am a mechanic). It is what I
do for a living. I know very little about personal computers.
Jim
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