[PLUG] Death in the family

[Eric Lucas <eric@lucii.org>]

Sadly, I must report that my troublesome 800 MHz Athlon system was found
dead this afternoon.  After a power supply transplant in 2003 and TWO hard
drive transplants in the last 8 months, the old beast simply fails to
respond _in any way_ when powered on.  It appears to be the processor and/or
motherboard.  Either way, it's gone.  It's survived by me and a SuSE 9.3
Professional DVD looking for a new "host".

I'm considering a HP Pavilion a1130n:
   Athlon 64 - 3200
   1GB PC3200 RAM
   250 GB SATA Hard drive
   DVD+-RW with "Light Scribe" (burns a label on special type discs.)
About $680 at Best Buy.

I tinkered with one in the store and it's unbelievably fast... double click
but don't blink or you will miss the program opening.

What I want to do it re-partition the SATA drive and stick SuSE on a 
partition
for dual boot.  Anybody have any experience with recent models of HP 
boxes and
Linux?  I'd hope that they would be largely Linux compatable out of the 
box but
I've leaned to take NOTHING for granted.  Particularly, the 'integrated 
ATI RADEON
XPRESS 200 graphics with 128MB shared video memory' gives me the 
"willies" :-)

Cheers!

Eric


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