compatibility questions
 

Hi

I'm about to buy 2 computersystems, which will have to work with linux (& windows). In fact I don't know that much about linux. I can work with it a bit. I need it for school. I was wondering if you expect any compatibility problems. When google, I don't find much information about linux (fedora) drivers, certainly not for motherboards. I want everything to work, including the onboard audio.

1th system:

GigaByte VGA GeForce 8600GTS Silent 256 MB, PCI-e 16x
MSI Moederbord P35 NEO2 FIR
2 sata harddisks in raid 0
E6750 core duo

2n system:

GigaByte Moederbord GA-P35-DS3P
Sapphire VGA Radeon X1950XT 256 MB, PCI-e 16x
2 sata harddisk in raid 0
Q6600 quad processor


Thanks in advance
Compugreen

What you want to know is the chipsets used. If you buy at a friendly local shop maybe they'd let you boot up a Fedora Live CD or KNOPPIX to see if dmesg or 'lspci' shows any weirdness. Else you could check the LQ HCL (http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/), LQ threads or vendors websites for chipset compat.