Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

[John Sheehy <jsheehy@ix.netcom.com>]

In message <m3g0bf3q8t.fsf@renttu.lnet.lut.fi>,
Mika Yrjola <myrjola@renttu.lnet.lut.fi> wrote:

>John Sheehy <jsheehy@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
>> In message <tm9m7v5719p238@corp.supernews.com>,
>> "Stephan Schaem" <tthai@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >It does... Linux is not just a basement hacker OS runned by kids
>> >living on their mother income.
>> 
>> But it seems like that's how the hardware support comes about.  It seems
>> like you pretty much have to buy peripherals that have been out for
>> about 3 years to get full support in Linux.
>
>Hm? With the possible expection of SB Live!, my keyboard and mouse and
>disk drive (newer than three years, but the designs are not changed, I
>guess), there's no components that are even nearly three years old on
>my Linux box.
>
>(Other hardware includes TB 1200, A7M266, Geforce 2mx, two IBM
>Deskstar HDs, HP 9120 CD burner and two NICs - all which is rather recent)
>
>Didn't have a single problem with this configuration.
>
>Then again, I'm not using USB stuff but rather more 'traditional'
>hardware.

I didn't mean to say that you *had* to have old hardware, but I guess it
came out that way.  What I meant was that if you have a PC that was
built with no consideration for Linux, you can't reasonably expect all
you peripherals to be fully supported should you decide to install Linux
on it, if the peripherals are relatively new (not the actual cards, but
the chipsets or firmware used).
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