[Sderby] Hardware help.

[Patrick Barber]

I have an Athlon64 running on a Gigabyte K8N Pro, although reports say 
it is supported I haven't yet got onboard sound working but everything 
else was found and works on a default install out of the box, like Dave 
Bottrill I am running SuSE9.1 very nicely too...to rephrase Mikes comments

On Thursday 30 September 2004 15:46, David Jolley wrote:

>> Mike Hemstock wrote:
>  
>
>>> >Think carefully about buying an Athlon64, there is currently only one
>>> >operating system available which will support AMDs 64bit processor range. 
>>> > I can't remember it's name, but I think it was written by Linus Torvalds!
>>    
>>
>>
>> So this is a figment of everyone's imagination:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/evaluation/upgrade.mspx ?
>  
>

OK, let me rephrase that:

Think carefully about buying an Athlon64, there is currently only one 
production operating system available which will support AMDs 64bit processor 
range.  I can't remember it's name, but I think it was written by Linus 
Torvalds!

Don't you mean there is only one non alpha/beta release of OS that 
supports AMDs 64bit processor

Richard Taylor wrote:

> I'm new to the list, having been subscribed for about a week, and not 
> having been to any meetings yet.
>
> That said, I was hoping that someone might want to offer me  some 
> help. In the next couple of weeks, I plan on building myself a new 
> machine which is going to be a linux-only system, not dual-boot like 
> most of my   previous boxes have been. It's been ages since I last did 
> any system building, and I was wondering if there's anyone in the LUG 
> that would consider offering me their assistance in putting all of the 
> various bits together?
>
> In addition to that, I'd also like advice from all of you on linux 
> compatibility issues. I'm probably going with an Athlon-64 processor. 
> Is there anyone on the list using Gentoo with the Athlon-64 
> archictecture? What about motherboards? Which chipsets are you using 
> (if you have the Athlon-64) and how well supported is it? Lastly, what 
> about SATA HDDs? Do they work under Linux?
>
> I don't want to spend my money on any components that won't work to 
> their full potential with Linux, so if anyone has any testimonials, or 
> horror stories, I'd love to hear them.
>
> -- 
> Richard
>
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