Re: New Computer for Linux OS

["Danny Southard" <southarddanny@hotmail.com>]

I like the idea of building one from scratch--and will look into it this 
evening.  RH's 7.2 OS makes life much easier than the older 6X versions I 
used when first learning Linux (and still am learning).


>From: KoReE <koree@ameth.org>
>Reply-To: silug-discuss@silug.org
>To: silug-discuss@silug.org
>Subject: Re: New Computer for Linux OS
>Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 20:50:29 -0500 (CDT)
>
>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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