On Monday, November 11, 2013 05:25:18 PM Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:03:44PM -0500, Jon N wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been a Debian user for I'd guess 7 or 8 years now. I would > > like to thank all of you that helped create a system that is so > > useful. Despite using it for so long I am far from a power users, I > > basically rely on the fact that it works well (or if it doesn't it > > will soon :-)). > > > > My current computer is also about that old and I am finally planning > > on buying some new hardware. A lot of stuff has changed in that time > > that's new to me, so I would like to ask some general questions before > > I purchase to save some potential headaches later. > > Rule of thumb: stick with off-the-shelf stuff :-) You don't want to be > the first guy with some esoteric hardware.
To expand on this point a little, buy mainboards, NICs (even if built-in) and video cards that were manufactured not much later than early 2012. Debian stable doesn't necessarily support all newer hardware. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201311111822.24108.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu
