On Sunday 31 December 2006 10:59, James Knott wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Saturday 30 December 2006 22:49, Randall R Schulz wrote:
What on Earth is the significance of how "cooperative" a vendor is? Who needs there cooperation? You look at their hardware. If it's suits your needs and has support under Linux, you can choose it. If not, you don't.
For the life of me, I don't understand this vendetta against ASUS.
I had three boards in a row 'smoke' on me when I first installed them.
I was able to get replacements each time from the vendor. And the last of those three was in a complete new chasis that was assembled by the vendor.
I finally shipped that back and told the vendor to reassemble it with an Intel MB and I haven't used ASUS since. At the time I was told that ASUS's quality control sucked and that they would re-ship returned boards without even looking at them.
I'm on my 2nd ASUS mom board. The first I used for about 4.5 years, before upgrading to my current 64 bit ASUS system. Both have worked well with Linux.
I must be on my 6th or 7th Asus board. Never had a problem with Linux. Never had a board fail. Including the one that must be 20 years old and would still run today if I felt like plugging it in. [...] Nick ========= I believe Asus made a good motherboard, several years ago, but of late,
On Sunday 31 December 2006 11:06, Nick Zentena wrote: they seem to have forgotten about quality control and proper support for their equipment. I've had any number of people, both locally & elsewhere tell me they quit using them years ago! I think many people still get them from their previous experience, thinking they are still as good. bye, Lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org