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On Monday 27 Sep 2004 15:10, Sadie Brinham wrote:
Be careful of Asus.You might just get away with installing GNU/Linux on a 4-year old Asus mobo,but recently Asus has gone all-out to make its componants wholly incompatible with GNU/Linux.
I didn't know that. I built a new home machine for myself this summer using a new ASUS A7N8X-E mobo which runs GNU/Linux ok. This board uses the NVIDIA nForce2 chipset for Athlon XP. The only problem I have had with this board is that the on-board sound was producing quite poor-quality output and I eventually disabled it and stuck in the SBLive card from my old machine. After reading your post I googled the problem and found a great deal of vitriol at http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html but I haven't yet found any other supportive evidence. If there is a case to be made against Asus I will be annoyed with myself, as I would rather not buy product from companies who go out of their way to be anti-linux. Tony -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.