Kernel Differences Woes

[David Timms]

Rickey Moore wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 23:12 -0500, Rod Haper wrote:
> I'm getting a new Athlon 64 machine this week (finally!!) to replace
> this ole AMD P3 clunker and I'm darn near seriously worried about
> installing FC5 to it. Is there a concensus of opinion that FC4 is more
> solid with Nvidia hardware? I'm getting some good stuff and I have to
> get into development mode with this machine, for serious... not a
> play-toy. Any thoughts? Advice? Caveats? Ric
Download an FC5 iso before you go to the PC shop. Get on friendly terms 
and get them to show you a machine with same MB/CPU/chipset etc, and do 
an install there and then. That way you will know for sure.
Even better use an updated iso (ie fedora-updates up until 1 month ago 
get installed during the install process).

Look at reviews of the motherboard you are thinking of getting, and it's 
current status with linux - before you buy.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/ for various bits you might want to use.

Unless of cours, you are a kernel or driver hacker ready for the thrill 
of hassling the manufacturer to give you any info at all to create a 
driver from ;)

DaveT.