[Nottingham] Re: TV cards and Linux

[James Gibbon]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:59:06 +0100
Hazel Windle <hazel at hazeldle.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thankyou for your replies, although I'm not sure whether to purchase a TV card 
> as there's nothing on TV at the moment. It's just the normal diatribe. It was 
> just my sister nagging me for a TV because she wants to watch Eastenders. 
> Maybe I'll get her to buy a telly card. As for the new PC I'm building that's 
> going to be for sound recording and graphics etc. Does Suse LInux run fast on 
> PC's with a 3 GHZ Pentium4 and 1GB dual channel RAM.

It's all relative, but I'd say yes, although it's not the quickest distro. You
can tweak it of course.

> My current PC is only a 1.7ghz Celeron with 512Mb Ram. Does Linux install
> alright on SATA hard drives? 
> 

Generally it does, yes.

James