Re: New Computer for Linux OS

["Casey Boone" <ophidian@mychoice.net>]

yeah you do need to stick with more name brand components

motherboards: abit, asus, msi (had good luck with all 3 brands).  what is
more important is the chipset on the motherboard.  stick with intel, amd, or
via chipsets if you can (i personally run an amd chipset based board with a
pair of athlons)

on a side note with the motherboards, elitegroup has a board out based on
the sis 735 chipset, and so far ive not heard anything bad about it (i sold
a couple, and havent had any problems from them yet).  the board is cheap
and seems to be rather stable (odd for an sis chipset).  also its giving
other chipsets a run for their money in the speed department.

cpu: intel or amd either one, just get a good motherboard to go with it
(motherboard means everything).

video card: this one has been covered, personally i would get a 32meg radeon
or a matrox g450.  if im not mistaken the matrox line is the most well
supported line of video cards for linux, but the ati support isnt bad now
and the drivers are open (unlike nvidia)

hard drive: stay away from seagate unless its a seagate barracuda.  im a fan
of western digital, but others like matrox.  you probably should stick with
one of these 2 brands.

sound card: sblive (as much as i absolutely hate creative labs and their
inability to write decent stable drivers to save their lives)

any keyboard and any mouse will do, stick with ps2 style though, less
trouble usually (unless you just want that usb kb+mouse)

any ide cdrom drive will do: sony, mitsumi, creative

i rather like 3com network cards, but realtek 8139 cards are also well
supported.  im a big fan of netgear fa311 and fa312 but i honestly dont
recall if they are supported under linux or not.

either go with an external modem (if you need one, i use a zoom v.92
external on my dialout internet sharing box, works quite nice) or check
www.linmodem.org (or .com or .net whichever it actually is) for modems to
use.


-----Original Message-----
From: silug-discuss-owner@silug.org
[mailto:silug-discuss-owner@silug.org]On Behalf Of KoReE
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 1:24 PM
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
Subject: Re: New Computer for Linux OS


Be careful on this one.  I love the local shops that build their own
systems.  But, they many times use inferior parts.  Shuttle boards,
gigabyte, etc.  Those boards aren't terrible, but they're not worth your
money in my opinion.  Also, generic chipset video cards (such as trident),
generic ethernet cards, etc.  Once again, for a standard home system for a
standard user, that stuff is okay, but for just a few bucks more, you can
get far superior parts.  Make sure you tell them what you're doing, and
even further, do some research, and have a list of manufacturers and
models of the parts you want.

Koree
____________________________________
Koree A. Smith  | Ameth Technologies
koree@koree.net | koree@ameth.org
     http://www.koree.net/

"With my feet upon the ground I move myself
between the sounds and open wide to suck it in,
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out,
I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been."

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Casey Boone wrote:

> another thing you can look at is getting a built system without an
operating
> system from a smaller time computer shop.  chances are decent that someone
> working there knows somewhat about linux.  they can put a system together
> that should be linux friendly.
>
> or you can get your parts through them and see if one of the techs will
help
> you put it together after hours (if you have never built one before).
> sometimes they will help you in exchange for getting food out of the deal
:)
>
>
> Casey
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: silug-discuss-owner@silug.org
> [mailto:silug-discuss-owner@silug.org]On Behalf Of Danny Southard
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:39 PM
> To: silug-discuss@silug.org
> Subject: Re: New Computer for Linux OS
>
>
> 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
> >
> >____________________________________
> >Koree A. Smith  | Ameth Technologies
> >koree@koree.net | koree@ameth.org
> >      http://www.koree.net/
> >
> >"With my feet upon the ground I move myself
> >between the sounds and open wide to suck it in,
> >I feel it move across my skin.
> >I'm reaching up and reaching out,
> >I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
> >And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
> >We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been."
> >
> >
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