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James Barrett wrote: | | As a matter of course I plan to dual-boot, so are there any hardware | configurations or manufacturers to use or avoid if I aim to achieve the | best (plug'n'play?) multimedia functionality from an OS OS such as one | running the popular GNU tools - maybe not hurd but the other one?
There are some specific ones to avoid, but these are well documented out there. If going with a prebuilt box, please use a supplier who deliberately supports Linux, and make it clear you are buying it because of that.
Just built my own box using a VIA Mini ITX, and whilst I'd heard bad things about VIA in terms of general hardware issues, everything was a okay, and everything "just works" under the various Debian installs it has had.
Although I may need to fiddle to get the best possible graphics driver performance (apparently there is a more uptodate free software driver). Certainly I'd be looking to use Mini ATX again for similar self build projects.
Last I heard Nvidia's closed source drivers were being caught, or outperformed by the free software drivers in XFree86.
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