Re: New Computer for Linux OS

[KoReE <koree@ameth.org>]

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Danny Southard wrote:

> with Red Hat's HCL--any suggestions?  I'm looking at an HP (all
> preinistalled) with around a 40 GB and 128MB of RAM, running around 1.2 GB
> processor.  Any suggestions?  It doesn't need to be specifically HP, just
> seems to be more abundant (but not necessary more Linux friendly)...


Have you ever built your own PC?  That's what I'd stick with.  I'd rather
anally ingest epoxy than buy an HP, or a Compaq, etc, and there are
reasons for that which I will not get into here.  I agree with Nate,
unless you go terribly high-end, name-brand PCs are usually not the way to
go.  This has to do mostly with scalability, but also many times includes
the tendency of name brand systems to include either on-board or inferior
parts.  I'm not sure what Red Hat's HCL is, as I don't really pay much
attention to them any more, but I'm guessing it's some sort of standard.
I'd suggest looking at the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO, and buying
parts from www.pricewatch.com, or something of that nature.

If building a system does not seem palatable to you, maybe Steve will give
you a quote on a new system.  I doubt he'll sell you something that isn't
Linux-friendly :D

BTW, the only brand-name PC I've ever bought was a Dell Poweredge server
that our company voted on.  It runs Windows 2000, and in comparing all of
the name-brand servers, Dell seemed to be the one I wanted to go with.
Dell also does pre-installed Linux (or used to, anyway), but what fun is
pre-installed Linux? :D

Koree

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