Re: [PLUG] [OT ... umm not really ] Buying New Hardware, Suggestions Please!

[McLinux <mclinux@myrealbox.com>]

Jason Schadel wrote:

> McLinux wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I appreciate the advise put forward so freely. However I have a 
> > request, please refrain from recommending hardware which don't have 
> > drivers for GNU/Linux. I hardly switch to Windoze and hence any such 
> > binding on Windoze will be hurting really hard. In fact the mpeg 
> > conversion of Kino and mpeg utils (I am not pretty clear of this 
> > name) is really good and much better than what I saw in Windoze, 
> > hence I wont be really going any h/w meant specifically for Win32.
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > Regards,
> > McLinux
>
> I was never suggesting to switch back over to windows.  I was simply 
> suggesting something I was considering buying because it was cheap, 
> had the features I wanted, and had linux support.  The best thing to 
> do is do some research because only you know exactly the support you 
> need and who you feel is worthy of your almighty dollar.  So my 
> recommendation stands with the nforce2 chipset.

Oops, I concluded after going through some mailing that the mentioned 
chipset didnot Linux support, as you mentioned the support is there. 
Thanks a lot for the clarification.

Regards,
McLinux

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