[H-GEN] Buying a new Linux Box
Rohan Walsh
rohan_walsh at yahoo.com.au
Tue Apr 3 01:18:24 EDT 2007
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 14:06 +1000, Anthony Irwin wrote:
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> Ivan Miljenovic wrote:
>
> > Anyway, I've been using Gentoo Linux as my main OS on my laptop since
> > about July last year, and I'm wanting to get myself a desktop now so I
> > have something with a bit more "grunt" (so that I can play with
> > Compiz/Beryl, etc.). Are there any computer stores in Brisbane that
> > are "Linux-Friendly", i.e. they will build a system that only uses
> > hardware that has Linux drivers? Southside is preferred...
> >
<snip>
> As for graphics cards I believe that nvidia are still the best last
> time I checked the ati drivers where still buggy (is that still the
> case?).
<snip>
personally I buy ATI cards, but I get the older ones that have working
F/OSS drivers. Last I checked, up to Radeon X800 and Radeon 9600 works
well. It adequate for my needs, but not the fastest available,
advantage: works "out of the box"
Rohan
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