Fancy New Computer: Will it work with linux?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 15 December 2002 21:31 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > I'm guessing that's Asus because their model names look something
> > like that.   Asus is known to be quite reliable.
>
> My experiences with Asus haven't been all that stellar.  They tend to
> cut corners with specs which results in unreliable hardware when
> pushed to its limits.  Also SiS makes hardware that is notiriously
> incompatible with Linux.

I'll second that vote....  I've just been through FOUR ASUS boards all of 
which had problems, and two of them came in computers that were 
assembled by someone else and supposedly checked out before shipping.  I 
really hate to turn on the power switch for fear that one of them is 
going to go flakey again.


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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         12/15/02 
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