Re: Fancy New Computer: Will it work with linux?

[Net Llama!]

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

SiSŪ 645DX & SiSŪ 962L chipset
Integrated USB 2.0
ATX P4S5A/DX Motherboard

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.

2 USB Ports in Back, 2 USB Ports in Front
1 Parallel/Printer Port, 2 Serial Ports
USB 2.0 Ready!

Should be fine- make sure the kernel is new enough to have EHCI support for USB 2.0

Should be fine with recent 2.4.x kernels (EHCI), not the box on the whole. Personally i'd suggest a box that was alot less bleeding edge, especially for a kid who doesn't need that much horsepower.


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