I am looking to build a system to load Red Hat v7.2. This is my first experience with Linux EVER!

I want to use parts I found on TigerDirect.com, but none of the parts I want are on the Red Hat HCL.

If I buy them, will they work?

If not, can someone recommend me a site where I can go to buy Linux compatible hardware? What do you folks use?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

The RedHat HCL is just about worthless. What parts were you looking into. Honestly I've never found a solid HCL for Linux as with every kernel release this jumps by 100 or so devices. Also there are a lot problems in that a vendor produces some gizmo, say a network card, that is based on the tulip chipset, so of course it works under Linux, but that vendor doesn't care enough to tell RedHat that and RH doesn't have the manpower to do all of the silly research.

Post it here, we'll link back to where the proof of kernel support can be found.

Luck,

Finegan

It depends what parts you are going to pick, and doesn't necessarly has to be Red Hat Certified Hardware to work with linux, as long as you don't get things like winmodem, super-pooper USB 2.0 joystick with force-feedback support, etc you'd be fine.
Good luck,
Check the others distros hardware compatibility lists for comparision.

Can the CROSS POST Ok.

They will most likely work.
except for the winmodem, and usb2.0 joystick stuff
To what extent they work is another question.
You may have to build your own drivers, or download them from different places.
My audigy card is "Not Supported" according to redhat, but with drivers I downloaded it works fine
It mostly has to do with how much time and effort you want to put into it

I like http://lhd.datapower.com/ They usually tell you what driver to use and has links to howto's... good site.