On Thu Apr 28 15:30:38 EDT 2011, dexen.devr...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday 28 of April 2011 20:50:14 Brian L. Stuart wrote: > Life is > too short to configure and compile Linux and > GNU software. > > or spending days on choosing a computer with all the hardware > supported. oh wait.
that's not how you do it. you spend about the normal amount of time checking, and then when you get the machine you fix what's left. :-) i've just configured an new xeon 1155, which has had a nic that wasn't quite supported (pch2 lan + 82579 phy), and a wierd lapic/ioapic configuration. all told, it was only about a day to get it working. now i could have spend that amount of time with an os that might have supported everything out-of-the-box, but it's doubtful that i'd have it even configured yet. - erik
