Jeff Abrahamson on Fri, 1 Nov 2002 22:10:08 -0500


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[PLUG] mobo angst


I just bought a new PC, should arrive next week. I'm happy: 2.4 GHz
P4, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB drive.

But whenever I do this, I always have this angst about mother board
compatibility. The lists I've found, say at
<http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/motherboards.html>, are
explicitly incomplete and seem quite sparse in the space of mobo's.

Is there something I'm missing, or is it really just sort of a crap
shoot each time, make sure you can return stuff, etc.?

(That said, I've never bought a machine that hasn't worked with linux,
although I have had machines at work that haven't worked with
linux. Perhaps because I buy cheap machines...)

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>

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