[vox-tech] suse linux and certified hardware

[Rod Roark]

Most PC motherboards will work with Linux.  There are new=20
ones coming out all the time.  Why don't you start with=20
hardware considerations, places like tomshardware.com, find=20
a couple of options that appeal to you, and then check here=20
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=20
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 absolu=
tely
> 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 serio=
us
> 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 so=
und
> 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 f=
ind
> a mainboard that is on suse Linux 8.1 compatibility list and looks to b=
e
> top notch, asus p4b , but figured that the people on this list could cl=
ue
> 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.  The=
y
> can only help me if I have some sort of product ID which comes with sus=
e
> 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 fini=
sh
> and poof!...done.  With Linux you have to know computer programming jus=
t 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 programm=
ing
> and use Linux but before I can do this I have to at least have it worki=
ng
> on my computer.  I also want to use DSL on it and use it as a server an=
d
> have other non Linux pc's tapped into it on a LAN but don't know if eit=
her
> 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 v=
ery
> little about personal computers.
>
> Jim