Cornellius Posted May 17, 2004 Report Share Posted May 17, 2004 When FC 2 final comes out of course, but the laptop I'll probably buy will be a : Compaq AMD Athlon XP, 40 Go, 512 MRam, CD-RW/DVD, etc... Will it work well with linux and Fedora Core 2 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjc Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 I can't speak for Fedora... I have a Sony FR-130 laptop (AMD 2000 XP) and it plays very well with both Win XP and Mandrake 9.2 (dual boot machine) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 I have used only AMD since the super socket seven days. My last three athlons have ran red hat, Mandrake, MEPIS, Fedora, arch, gentoo, SuSE, and others that I have forgotten! No problems as far as cpu. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 I think the only problem if you are trying to run 64 bit linux for 64 bit AMD chips, since they are all, as far as I am concerned, Beta quality at the moment. However, if you are using 32 bit linux (even for AMD64), then any kind of linux distro would work well with your computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawsonrc Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 Beware Fedora Core 2! I read in EVERYTHING LINUX yesterday about serious dangers if you have Windows on your computer and you wish to dual boot! On the link below, scroll down until you find zeroOw's links to two sites describing this problem.One link is to oreillynet.com and the other to bugzilla.redhat.com. Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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