From: caszonyi@rdslink.ro
To: "S. Barret Dolph" <wheds8@ms66.hinet.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New linux box
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:08:17 +0200 (EET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0401262305330.996@grinch.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401262213.43388.wheds8@ms66.hinet.net>
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, 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.
>
If you want stability don't use the latest and greatest hardware (Video
card and motherboard chipset).
It is ussually good to avoid Nvidia because they have usually binary only
drivers and they are not stable.
> Cordially,
> S. Barret Dolph
> Taipei Taiwan
> -
Calin
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-26 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-26 14:13 New linux box S. Barret Dolph
2004-01-26 14:24 ` Peter Garrett
2004-01-26 15:57 ` Ken Moffat
2004-01-26 19:53 ` Theo. Sean Schulze
2004-01-26 20:56 ` Ken Moffat
2004-01-26 21:08 ` caszonyi [this message]
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