Re: [opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Matthew Stringer
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 14:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/09/02 18:41 (GMT+0100) Matthew Stringer apparently typed: > > > I've never heard of someone being asked what OS/Software they were > > running when returning faulty hardware, if I had a faulty mobo I'd > > return it to the vendor not

Re: [opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/02 14:03 (GMT-0400) Nick Zentena apparently typed: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 13:41, Matthew Stringer wrote: >> > http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html > I got a not found with that link. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04

Re: [opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/02 18:41 (GMT+0100) Matthew Stringer apparently typed: > I've never heard of someone being asked what OS/Software they were > running when returning faulty hardware, if I had a faulty mobo I'd > return it to the vendor not the manufacturer so can't see ever having to > speak to Asus or

Re: [opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Nick Zentena
On Sunday 02 September 2007 13:41, Matthew Stringer wrote: > > http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html I got a not found with that link. When did Asus start dealing direct with end users? I've always understood if you have a bad board you deal with your dea

Re: [opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Matthew Stringer
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 08:54 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/09/02 07:51 (GMT-0400) Eberhard Roloff apparently typed: > > > BandiPat wrote: > > >> You take your chances with anything ASUS teaming it up with Linux. > >> There are better choices. > > > if you don not mind, could you kindly na

Re: [opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-02 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/02 07:51 (GMT-0400) Eberhard Roloff apparently typed: > BandiPat wrote: >> You take your chances with anything ASUS teaming it up with Linux. >> There are better choices. > if you don not mind, could you kindly name them? The real point is that ASUS support staff is openly hostile

Re: [opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-01 Thread BandiPat
On Saturday 01 September 2007, Matthew Stringer wrote: > Hi, [...] > Couple of things I've not pinned down, main one is the motherboard, > I'm leaning towards an Asus P5K3 Deluxe as it ticks all the boxes and > looks sufficiently high quality to last. > > http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=1

[opensuse] Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard + OpenSUSE 10.3

2007-09-01 Thread Matthew Stringer
Hi, I'm looking at building a new all Linux PC soon, been going through all my Windows apps and finding Linux equivalents (almost got everything covered). I've decided to build the machine to co-incide with the release of 10.3. I've settled on an Intel core 2 quad CPU, 2+GB RAM 120GB + 500GB