hi ya
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:55:32PM -0500, Peter Christensen wrote:
> > My five-year-old Gateway Pentium 200 MHz died recently. (It won't
get a used 486 or used pentium to get yourself back online..
- just take the old disk and put into the new pc
and you're back online ??
- if your disk died, hope you have a backup
and jsut buy a new $30 (10GB) disk
for new boxes..
> You might check out the following (in no particular order):
> http://pricewatch.com
> http://cyberpowerpc.com
> http://excaliberpc.com
rest of the online pc stores.. and comparason shopping places
http://www.linux-1u.net/WebStores/
used pc (online) stores .... no such thing??
local pc store selling old stuff... a few in SF bay area
> > A few people recommended the AMD Athlon processor over Pentiums.
but one must compile a fresh kernel for amd to take advantage
of the athlon instruction set ??
- which bombs on p3/p4.. :-)
> > And Matrox for video
>
> Most main stream video chipsets are well supported.
hate both .... since they both have *.o files but no sources
which makes it harder to run your own customized kernels
just had to make rh-7.2 and rh-8.0 run on ATI FireGL-2 and nVidia Quadra4
and its a pain in the behind ot get working since they dont release
sources ... for compiling and linking... it a "broken" sources they give
you .. ( some of it is just *.o and *.a and *.so )
> > Soundblaster or Ensoniq for sound
>
> With ALSA, I've had little trouble getting any audio chip to work.
ensoniq is easier to config... but is dependent on your cards
- get good speakers if sound quality is important
c ya
alvin
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