Kai, thank you for the helpful explanation. Daniel On Wednesday 17 January 2007 19:56, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 08:23, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Hi,
A friend needs a new PC for e-mail, internet, looking at DVD's and write some letters... So it should be the cheapest possible.
Now I've searched the hardware-database, but I could not find a single one of the cheaper mainboards that are available here in Basel/Switzerland :
Daniel:
Though I'm not running 10.2, I've found that - in general the mainboard is less of a concern than the components included. I've installed SUSE and other distributions on just about every mainboard manfuaturer - MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte... - and found that there really isn't a difference.
When you go low-end, you are going to find your problems are with either the Video Chip, Sound Chip and/or the networking chip, which will probabaly all be embedded. For any of the listed mainboards, you want to look at the included video/lan/audio and see what the chipsets are. Given that you can check the hardware database to see if the chip is supported.
For example, I looked up the first MSI you listed: MSI PM8PM-V.
It has - according to the website: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=PM8PM-V&class=mb
Video - S3 Graphics Unichrome Pro Integrated Graphics core
Audio - AC'97 link controller integrated in VIA® VT8237R Realtek ALC655 6-channel S/W audio codec.
LAN - Realtek 8201CL
You take each of these items and review them to see if there's been problems with running SUSE. (I can say that AC'97 is fully supported, AFAIK.)
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wo ist der ort für den ehrlichsten kuss ich weiss, dass ich ihn für uns finden muss...
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