On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 3/20/14, Patrick Bartek <bartek...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Here's some guidelines to reduce install/run problems. > > > 2. Motherboard and graphic card chips can be a problem in general, > > new or old. I try to stick with nVidia, Realtek and AMD. I avoid > > Intel and Broadcom, particularly the newest chips. Older ones are > > less a problem. > > I don't have experience with desktops/servers, but on laptops (at > least Lenovo), Intel is a fine option, and in my experience mostly > just works. Of course, YMMV.
I have a 12 year old IBM Thinkpad 240X with a 500MHZ Pentium IV that runs Debian Etch just fine. But that's an "older one." ;-) And the only Intel based machine I own. > > > 4. Stick with manufacturers who overtly support Linux. > > Which certainly includes Intel (these days) in a pretty big way! It's been so long (years!) since I read anything regarding Intel that because of what you've said, perhaps it's time I catch up with what Intel's been up to. In my memory, Intel was never a supporter of Linux. They made chips that worked with what Microsoft wanted for Windows, and Linux developers adapted their code to work with them. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140319213351.05a98...@debian7.boseck208.net
