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On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 23:43 +1000, David Timms wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Rickey Moore wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 23:12 -0500, Rod Haper wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I'm getting a new Athlon 64 machine this week (finally!!) to replace</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> this ole AMD P3 clunker and I'm darn near seriously worried about</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> installing FC5 to it. Is there a concensus of opinion that FC4 is more</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> solid with Nvidia hardware? I'm getting some good stuff and I have to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> get into development mode with this machine, for serious... not a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> play-toy. Any thoughts? Advice? Caveats? Ric</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Download an FC5 iso before you go to the PC shop. Get on friendly terms </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and get them to show you a machine with same MB/CPU/chipset etc, and do </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">an install there and then. That way you will know for sure.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Even better use an updated iso (ie fedora-updates up until 1 month ago </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">get installed during the install process).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Look at reviews of the motherboard you are thinking of getting, and it's </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">current status with linux - before you buy.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/">http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/</A> for various bits you might want to use.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Unless of cours, you are a kernel or driver hacker ready for the thrill </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">of hassling the manufacturer to give you any info at all to create a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">driver from ;)</FONT>
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Not being familiar with 64bit, when it comes time to install, do I just let the install process do a 64bit install and will 32bit still be supported? Or, install with 32bit and add 64bit after? I really am clueless. This will be another learning curve... no problems only opportunities? <cringe> Ric<BR>
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