Re: New linux box

Peter Garrett
2004-01-26T14:24:06Z

You might want to look at

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/

seems a bit outdated (2002-11-12) but it looks informative.

For Mandrake try

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 01:13, S. Barret Dolph wrote:
> Well, my problems have much to do with hardware and it is time to get a new
> box. My old box ran for 6 years with Mandrake and never crashed. (X-windows
> crashed when setting up Matrox 450 though.) My question is what hardware is
> good to avoid. I only use my computer for work, no games, but I am on it at
> least 6 hours or more a day. I care mostly about stability and don't really
> care too much about speed. So more to the point are any of you aware of
> hardware that is a nightmare to install. Or a site which can help.
>
> Cordially,
> S. Barret Dolph
> Taipei Taiwan
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