On Tue, Dec 25, 2012, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Motherboards for new Ubuntu
install":
> I will be installing Kubuntu on 4 computers for a small business who
> has already decided that the computers are to be purchased from Ivory.
Hi Dotan,
In the last few years I purchased from Ivory several comp
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> What is specific to Ubuntu as far as MoBo is concerned? I would look at the
> kernel. Are Ubuntu kernels very different?
>
I don't suspect that Ubuntu is very different from what could be any
other distro, but I mention Ubuntu (Kubuntu, s
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> In the last few years I purchased from Ivory several computers, usually
> the cheapest ones with the simplest motherboards, etc., and was always
> able to run the latest Linux (I prefer Fedora, but I don't think it
> matters) without any prob
Hi Dotan,
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:05:46AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> > What is specific to Ubuntu as far as MoBo is concerned? I would look at the
> > kernel. Are Ubuntu kernels very different?
[...]
> There is no mention of which dr
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> You'll need to access a running
> machine to extract the PCI ID information, though, since Gigabyte's manual is
> not very helpful.
Is that the chicken, or the egg?
In other words, if I did have access to a running system, I would
already k
Is there a chance Ivory would let you boot their computers (assuming
they have an assembled computer with one of these motherboards) with a
live CD?
On 12/26/2012 02:35 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Baruch Siach wrote:
See the list of currently (as of version 3.8-r
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Michael Shiloh
wrote:
> Is there a chance Ivory would let you boot their computers (assuming they
> have an assembled computer with one of these motherboards) with a live CD?
>
I already asked, they would not.
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On 12/26/2012 03:02 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Michael Shiloh
wrote:
Is there a chance Ivory would let you boot their computers (assuming they
have an assembled computer with one of these motherboards) with a live CD?
I already asked, they would not.
!@#$%^
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
*buntu does not come with the tools necessary to compile software.
So that's what is special about Ubuntu... I don't use it, so "lack of
tools" is a foreign concept to me. I am sure the necessary stuff can be
installed though.
The Gigabyte
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Michael Shiloh wrote:
>
>
> On 12/26/2012 03:02 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Michael Shiloh
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a chance Ivory would let you boot their computers (assuming they
>>> have an assembled computer with one of thes
On 2012-12-25 23:00, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
There
was time you pay a premium and buy a Linux computer, such as a VA.
Linux, Dells with their own Linux distro, etc, but I think they
are long gone.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/dell-releases
On 12/26/2012 03:11 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Michael Shiloh
wrote:
On 12/26/2012 03:02 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Michael Shiloh
wrote:
Is there a chance Ivory would let you boot their computers (assuming they
have an a
Hi Dotan,
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:29:31PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > You'll need to access a running
> > machine to extract the PCI ID information, though, since Gigabyte's manual
> > is
> > not very helpful.
>
> Is that the chicken,
Dotan,
Download the Windows drivers from the MpBo site, extract the files, look up
the relevant strings in the .inf files and Google it for Kubuntu
compatibility
How about starting a Linux-IL maintained HW DB - every member runs lshw on
their machine and uploads it to a site with the Distro t
Hi Amichai,
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 02:57:23PM +0200, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> Download the Windows drivers from the MpBo site, extract the files, look up
> the relevant strings in the .inf files and Google it for Kubuntu
> compatibility
I tried that. The trouble is that the Windows driver (ac
Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger spectrum...
I have an Atheros chip from that family on my laptop, it required me
to install one more package for wired communication (wireless
[different chip, also atheros] worked out of the box):
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Ather
E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger spectrum...
Yes, but not always, AFAIK the last person in Israel to get a $10 USB
DVB-T tuner to work under Linux was @Guy Sheffer. Since then the
chipsets keep change so fast that no one can keep up with t
Hi Eliyahu,
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 03:45:27PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
> Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger spectrum...
Of course. But there is no guarantee that the covered range exactly overlaps
the Windows driver one.
> I have an Atheros chip from that fami
2012/12/26 Baruch Siach :
> Hi Eliyahu,
>
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 03:45:27PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
>> Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger spectrum...
>
> Of course. But there is no guarantee that the covered range exactly overlaps
> the Windows driver one.
>
>>
Hi Eliyahu,
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 04:11:57PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
> 2012/12/26 Baruch Siach :
> > Hi Eliyahu,
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 03:45:27PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
> >> Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger
> >> spectrum...
> >
> > Of course.
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> So that's what is special about Ubuntu... I don't use it, so "lack of
> tools" is a foreign concept to me. I am sure the necessary stuff can be
> installed though.
>
Sure, but doing so without network is a pain. It's not typing peek and
p
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> This board surely runs Windows. You can extract the PCI ID from its "Device
> Manager", or whatever it's called there.
>
> Also, some BIOSes list PCI devices with IDs in the initial screen.
>
Thanks, I will ask if I can get that information f
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:45 PM, E.S. Rosenberg
wrote:
> Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger spectrum...
>
> I have an Atheros chip from that family on my laptop, it required me
> to install one more package for wired communication (wireless
> [different chip, also ath
2012/12/26 Dotan Cohen :
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:45 PM, E.S. Rosenberg
> wrote:
>> Generally the linux drivers cover an equally large if not larger spectrum...
>>
>> I have an Atheros chip from that family on my laptop, it required me
>> to install one more package for wired communication (wir
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:29 AM, E.S. Rosenberg
wrote:
> Note that that is a meta-package that installs the kernel specific
> package, so you'll need to download at least the kernel specific one
> and the meta package is good to make sure that after a kernel upgrade
> you still have the drivers.
>
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