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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:39:07 -0400
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On Thu Apr 28 15:30:38 EDT 2011, dexen.devries@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday 28 of April 2011 20:50:14 Brian L. Stuart wrote: > Life is
> too short to configure and compile Linux and > GNU software.
>
> or spending days on choosing a computer with all the hardware
> supported.  oh wait.

that's not how you do it.  you spend about the normal amount
of time checking, and then when you get the machine you fix
what's left.  :-)

i've just configured an new xeon 1155, which has had a nic
that wasn't quite supported (pch2 lan + 82579 phy), and a
wierd lapic/ioapic configuration.

all told, it was only about a day to get it working.

now i could have spend that amount of time with an os that might
have supported everything out-of-the-box, but it's doubtful that i'd
have it even configured yet.

- erik