Royce & Sharal Pereira writes:
I'm Planning to buy a PC for home. It will be a Celeron 1.2G, due to cost considerations(compared to P4). Are there any issues re installing Linux(specifically PCQuest Linux 8.0) on a Celeron system? Any particular motherboards or peripherals/cards I should avoid (or use)?
I would suggest that you go in for a AMD Duron 1.2GHz. It is /much/ superior to the Celeron 1.2GHz and costs almost the same (or less). For mobo, I would suggest the Asus board with the NForce chipset with onboard GForceII accelerator and a 6-channel dolby digital decoder. The mobo costs around 4.2K Rupees and is an excellent value for money. Linux runs on this system very well. In fact I would suggest you go for a AMD AthlonXP 1.7 GHz which costs about Rs.3.7K.
Avoid internal modems.
I have personally run Linux without problems on: AMD 386DX with OPTi board Intel Pentium 200MMX on a Tomato board with VIA chipset AMD Duron 1.2GHz on a ASPRO mobo with VIA KT133 chipset AMD Duron 1.2GHz on a DFi mobo with VIA KL133 chipset Celeron 950MHz with Intel 810e mobo. IBM Thinkpad R32 -> P4 1.7GHz.
HTH, quasi p.s. you will meet people who will say that if you buy AMD your machine will crash. Show them what is appropriate - your finger.