[Discuss] Fedora 8 and new system works straight out of the box.

[David Bronaugh]

John Blomfield wrote:
> I have just fired up my new computer for the first time with Linux and 
> I must say I am most impressed.  Never have I had such a flawless 
> installation!  With some hesitation and a lot of research I decided I 
> would go with a nVidia chipset and video card.  My hesitation was that 
> on two computers ago I had had all sorts of problems with nVidia video 
> cards but that was probably with Fedora 3, an early Suse or Mandrake.  
> It now seems the problems with nVidia cards have been resolved. I 
> booted with Fedora 8 KDE Live DVD which worked perfectly.  After a 
> little checking I then installed which can't have taken more than 
> about 5 minutes and again no problems so far.  My next step is to 
> download all updates and get all my favourite tools, applications and 
> transfer my /home from my old machine.  Will keep you posted.
>
> My System:
>
> AMD Athlone 64x2 5200 2.6GHz
> ASUS M2N-SLI-DELUX motherboard
> 4 GB Ram
> ASUS Extream N7300GT/HTD GeForce Video Card
> 3 x 250 GB SATA 3GHz Western Digital HD's
Why 3x250G? I would have gone for 4x 500G + RAID10 or 2x500G + RAID1. 
More storage, less fiddly stuff, can have easy redundant boot, etc.

I'm sure you love me second-guessing you here, but why?

David