Fancy New Computer: Will it work with linux?

[Ted Ozolins]

Net Llama! wrote:

> On 12/15/02 17:59, Bob Raymond wrote:
>
>>> ======New fancy computer specifications=================
>>> Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz
>>
>>
>> He doesn't really need something that fast unless he's doing some 
>> really high powered stuff like video editing.
>
>
> Or nuclear simulations.  Quite honestly, this thing is massive 
> overkill for web surfing & gradeschool homework.
>
>>> NEW 512k Advanced L2 Advanced Transfer Cache!!
>>> 128 Bit Enhanced Floating Point Unit
>>> Advanced Dynamic Execution
>>>
>>> Motherboard
>>> Pentium 4 Motherboard
>>>
>>> SiS? 645DX & SiS? 962L chipset
>>> Integrated USB 2.0
>>> ATX P4S5A/DX Motherboard
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>>
>> 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.

Since in the lower left hand corner of their (ECS) home page they sport 
"ECS computers ship with genuine M$ windows" I doubt they care if any of 
it even works with linux. The lack of info as to what chipsets (video, 
NIC and sound) they are using does make me wonder. But then I was told 
to be very leary of Matsonic mb's, mine has never given any problems 
just as my old Asus TX97X has never given me  any greif. I have seen a 
lot of Asus mb that were bad, luckily I've never ended up with one that 
was.

-- 
Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.

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