How well supported is this hardware?

[clockworks]

I'm kinda curious to try out Karmic Koala (and KDE4.3). I want to throw together one of those cheap Atom based "Nettop" computers, but as I've learned when dealing with Linux, it's best to buy hardware that is known to be well supported.

Motherboard Chipset: Intel 945GC
Video: Intel GMA 950
Audio: Realtek ALC662
Network: Realtek 8100C

Opinions? Thanks!

[KeithZG]

Re: How well supported is this hardware?

I'm sure with some cursory googling you can find that stuff out pretty fast, but it's worth mentioning that the Intel stuff you note is absolutely identical to what's in the laptop I'm typing this from....and no problems whatsoever with Karmic

[clockworks]

Re: How well supported is this hardware?

I'm sure with some cursory googling you can find that stuff out pretty fast, but it's worth mentioning that the Intel stuff you note is absolutely identical to what's in the laptop I'm typing this from....and no problems whatsoever with Karmic

Awesome! Fully accelerated 3D graphics and all?

And I did try Googling and I found threads from 2007 complaining about bugs with that chipset.

[GreyGeek]

Re: How well supported is this hardware?

2007 is almost two computer generations ago!

[francsal]

Re: How well supported is this hardware?

I'm sure with some cursory googling you can find that stuff out pretty fast, but it's worth mentioning that the Intel stuff you note is absolutely identical to what's in the laptop I'm typing this from....and no problems whatsoever with Karmic

+1

It works really good, on a netbook with specs like that.

Give it a try, you´ll be surprised by how responsive that system can be!

[kbunt]

Re: How well supported is this hardware?

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