If you surf over to the Micronux web site (I bought the 7 CD Woody distribution from them) you will see some pretty rock solid linux configurations at very decent prices. They also link to a bunch of reviews and comparisons of the intel board vs whatever else is out there
There's also a link to intel's web site. When I went through all this a few weeks ago, it seemed to me to open up a range of possibilities, from build your own, to paying Micronux to do it for you, only paying for what you needed, not bloated software and service costs It was an interesting exercise and I think it may help you fine-tune your own judgment about how you want to proceed In any event, you should be able to carry over many of your peripheral boards and hard drives to the new system. You might also want to consider investing in a bigger power supply ( >= 500W) if you plan to attach a lot of hard drives -- David >>> Frans Pop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sunday, March 09, 2003 2:30 PM About your question. I have thought of building my own machine too, but never got around to it. I was allways scared by the sheer amount of possible audio and video cards and so on. I am not a hardware hobbyist, so how do I know I would make the right choices and not get incompatibles? Having someone else responsible for the hardware configuration seemed to me not such a bad idea. If you do go ahead, I would first try to get a configuration and then, before actually buying it, browse the net to see if there are known problems with Linux supporting any of the components you have chosen. >>> On Sunday 09 March 2003 19:55, Peter Christensen wrote: My five-year-old Gateway Pentium 200 MHz died recently. (It won't boot from the hard drive or a rescue disk, and it won't go into bios-setup mode.) I don't think it's fixable, and anyway, it was so slow that it's probably time to replace it. Temporarily I'm using a borrowed computer with Win95. Yuck! For my next computer I want to make sure that everything is compatible with Linux. I searched this list and found a few posts about buying computers. They were a little old (one or two years), so I'm wondering if the situation has changed. A few people recommended the AMD Athlon processor over Pentiums. And Matrox for video, Soundblaster or Ensoniq for sound. Any thoughts on this? I've heard that computers nowadays are built with the cheapest possible components, so I was wondering if building it myself would be a good idea. It might not be much cheaper than buying one from Dell or Gateway, but if the result was a better quality machine it might be worthwhile. So far I've only had to replace broken components in my Gateway, such as the hard drive and CDrom, also added memory. Building a computer would be a challenge, but I think I'd enjoy doing it... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
