Re: Hardware recommendations for a newbie.
- From: General Schvantzkopf <schvantzkopf@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:24:03 -0500
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:59:23 +1000, Andy wrote:
In article <66ue56F2l3ft8U2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:39:11 +1000, Andy wrote:
What I'm not up to speed on is processors - AMD? Intel? Pentium?
I'm only familiar with the Intel stuff from being a Mac user. Is
there any consensus as to which components are best suited to running
Linux with minimal hassles?
Yes. All three plus VIA. Linux runs on virtually every major CPU
platform. You may not know, but there were versions which ran on the
PPC platform as well.
Yes, I am aware - I ran one of them on a G4 PowerMac, and was fairly
disappointed. It seemed that it had been half-finished, then abandoned.
It sounds like compatibility problems have been addressed in the last
few years (certainly with up-to-date hardware), which is excellent news.
Mainstream hardware has been well supported for a very long time. I've
been using Linux since the PII days and I've never run into a desktop
system that wouldn't run Linux. When there is a major generational change
in hardware you might have to compile your own kernel until your distro
catches up, but eventually it will. The PPC Mac versions had a limited
audience so they didn't get the same level of effort that PC versions
got. Think about it, Mac users buy their systems because they love the
Mac so they don't have a big incentive to run Linux. Also OS-X is based
on BSD so it's a *nix anyway. The people that I knew who ran Linux on Mac
hardware did it because they needed a PPC development platform for the
embedded PPC systems they were developing code for. As long as they could
run GCC and Xemacs they were happy, they didn't all the bells and
whistles that a full Linux distro comes with.
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