Re: New Motherboard: some newbie advice



On Jul 24, 9:21 am, Rockinghorse Winner <rockingho...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I am almost to the point of buying the parts for a minitower build, and just
wanted to ease my mind about drivers. 1. Does Linux have all the drivers
for the interfaces like IDE, SATA, PCI, etc? Cuz, most of the mobos only
come with Windohs drivers.

*R* *H*

--
"I'll take the nice ones with simple installers etc, because to me, thats the
whole and only point of using a distribution in the first place."
Linus Torvalds (2007)

You must be specific about what hardware you are talking about. You
are using very very general terms.
Linux nowadays support "almost" everything windows supports out of the
box, but there are different issues about different hardware,
therefore you must be specific


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