Re: Is this Configuration Red Hat Compatible?

[Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum lintux cx>]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Dennis Fuller wrote:

> 
> I have been offered the following system by a PC dealer. Please let me know (preferably by direct email)if you can see any problems.
> 
> 
> To operate with Windows 98 and Linux using:
> Athlon 750 with 256MB Ram

My setup is the Athlon 500 with the K7M Motheboard+128 Mb ...So your setup
is more than enough..

> 10gigdrive for Win98SE and 10Gig for Linux 

Perfect!

> 30Gig drive for video

No problem here...

> 52xCD drive 

What is the cd drive...Actually these days most cd drives are IDE
compatible, if this cd drive is IDE compatible (most likely) then you have
no problem..

FWIW my cd is a Creative infra 52X .....and is working great.....

> 17" IIyama monitor, 

The best!

> 56K modem supporting DOS,[I believe this will avoid Winmodems]

I think so too...but if you are not sure about dos support go for a
external modem which although is a bit more exspesive, is definetly
compatible with dos and linux.

If you know the modems name you can go to linmodems.org and see wether it
is a mong the supported list...

> Cordless keytronicKeyboard
> Cordless MS mouse

I unfortunately can't comment on the above two items.....

> SoundBlaster live 1024,

Fully compatible...opensource.creative.com has the drivers for the
Sb-live...Great card!

> Nvidia TNT2-32MB graphics crad,

Can't you try to get a Voodoo card...Vodooo cards have much better support
under linux for 3D hardware acceleration...My card is a Vodoo3 2000 which
is working great!

You might want to see what other NVida uses on this list say about this
aspect..but I would strongly suugest that if it is possible to go for a
voodoo 3 card...
 
> Epson 750 colour printer
> Epson GT9500 professional scanner.
>  I would also use my old Epson LQ550 24pin dot-matrix printer.[Black&White]

Sorry but I can't help you here....you might want to do a quick search on
the net to see whether there is any info about there linux
compatibility...

So summarising...I think the areas you would have to check are the
printers and the Video card...and the cordless keyboards and mouse..

Over all I think that it is a good buy...

Best Wishes,

Grendel

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