Most PC motherboards will work with Linux. There are new ones coming out all the time. Why don't you start with hardware considerations, places like tomshardware.com, find a couple of options that appeal to you, and then check here and elsewhere about Linux compatibility.
A good place to research compatibility issues is Google groups. Go to the Advanced Groups Search and search in comp.os.linux.hardware for the relevant motherboard and/or chipset model. -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Friday 27 December 2002 09:02 pm, Jim wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
