Fancy New Computer: Will it work with linux?

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I guess I'm lucky - I've used them on many systems (several Linux) with no 
problems whatsoever!

The SI stuff looks like junk though - it doesn't even work well in Windows.


> 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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