[ale] Computers for sale with Linux installed.

[Joe]

Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at attbi.com> writes:

> But if you do that, bring along a tomsrtbt floppy to check for the buggy
> CMD640 and RZ1000 IDE controller chips in the Pentium classics.  About a
> third of all machines made in that era have them and are to be avoided. 

Linux has had workarounds for those problems since they were detected,
and they're enabled by default in (AFAIK) all kernels that support
them. So unless you're looking for pure speed (and if you're buying
a 5-year-old machine, you're not :-), they should be OK.

Cheers,

-- Joe Knapka
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