On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Felix Miata
On 2008/03/04 14:56 (GMT+0100) Paul Ollion apparently typed:
I am considering the purchase of a not too expensive windows free PC, mainly for office work and I would like to know your opinion about the following config proposed by the retailer to be sure there will be no unsolvable problems with openSuSE 10.2 or10.3
Motherboard : Asus P5GC-MX/775 Processor Intel Pentium IV-641, 3.2 Ghz /S 775 - 2 Mo DDR Go HDD 80 Go 7200 rps SATA 8 Mo
I have no experience with that product. I did install 10.3 on a slightly older P5GD1-VM just last Friday.
Understand that Asus motherboards have a good reputation, but that Asus the company does not, which is important if you ever need support from it. Its web site seems to get frequent redesigns by people who have no understanding of usability, which often makes finding things like manuals and BIOS updates difficult or impossible. Downloads are normally SLOW, because Asus seems to like to bunch unrelated files in large archives even though what one actually needs may only be a few kb in size. http://web.archive.org/web/20070610141850/mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Suck...
Agreed on the Asus the company issue. We are putting together a PO for a replacement set of machines at work. We suggested Asus to the integrator and they highly recommended we go with Intel instead due to maintenance and support issues. FYI: My post about having to tweak voltage levels of the RAM related to a couple different Asus MBs we have here. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org