What Computer to Buy?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:13:50 -0500 "Michael V. De Palatis" <mvd at gatech.edu> 
wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:18:36PM -0400, Gregory Pi?ero wrote:
>> On 7/19/06, Jared Buck <jared.buck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >Building your own machine isn't a bad idea :)  sometimes it's actually
>> >cheaper than having one built for you by a computer manufacturer.  Then 
you
>> >can decide exactly what you need for Linux.
>> 
>> This is a very tempting idea.  My only concern is if I already have
>> bad luck buying whole computers compatible with Linux, wouldn't buying
>> each part individually only magnify the problem?
>
>Quite the contrary. When you look at hardware, you can find each piece
>that is known to work well with Linux. It's harder and harder to find
>hardware that doesn't work with Linux these days (at least as far as
>the guts of a PC go), but it's still not a bad idea to check that out
>just in case.
>
One resource is:

http://www.hardwareguys.com/

It is the web site of a computer book author who, in my experience, really 
knows his stuff.  He also uses Ubuntu as his primary OS for the work (runs 
Windows only for the obligatory screen shots).

There are active message boards populated by knowledgeable people, many of 
which use Linux generally and (K)ubuntu.  The author is active there.

They are about to come out with a new version of Building the Perfect PC 
from O'reilly.

I've built several PCs using their books and advice and it's always gone 
well.  They are oriented towards reliability over cutting edge performance, 
so don't expect a lot of help on overclocking there.

Scott K