On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Rafael Skodlar <ra...@linwin.com> wrote:
> On 12/07/2013 07:07 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > On 12/07/2013 07:44 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Generally speaking, both pata and sata dvd-rw drives have > >> been Just Works(TM) for 3 or more years. If it doesn't, > >> I've found its a good chance the drive is funkity, and a > >> fresh $25 drive from Wallies plugs in and works. Not at > >> all the problem child they were 10 years back up the log. > > OK, great! I used to scan the compat. lists before buying > > anything the least bit special, but CD burners and sound > > cards were especially difficult to find ones that were > > Linux compatible. Glad I don't have to fret over that > > stuff anymore. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jon > > I haven't had problems for over 10 years now but why bother with boot > from CD-ROM or DVD anymore? Modern motherboards boot from USB device. > You simply copy the same image to USB memory stick and boot from it. > > Same goes for writing data or backups. USB memory sticks keep getting > cheaper with bigger capacity, and you don't need special device to use > them. 32GB go for less than $20 these days. Beats everything including > BlueRay drives. > > It's also easier to carry 2 or 3 USB sticks in the pocket than DVDs. > > As far as compatibility goes, no problem with sound but Nvidia chip > based video cards are the biggest pain to setup in my experience. Even > Linus has strong opinion about them. > > -- > Rafael > I'm with Rafael and Gene. I live and work with Unix and Linux during the week at my real job. About the only real problems I run into any more building and configuring machines is with the video cards and drivers. Pretty much everything else, as Gene sez "Just Works" these days. And NVidia is definitely the worst of the bunch when it comes to getting a reliable display with their proprietary driver. Unfortunately, where I work, thumb drives have been more or less outlawed, due to eedjits bringing in viruses from other places. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
