[NTLUG:Discuss] Athlon incompatibilities?

[Chris Cox]

You might want to look at http://www.pogolinux.com

They have a reasonably configured 1Ghz Athlon system
which might be less expensive than trying to build
one on your own.  I recommended the machine to
someone at work and they bought one.... however, it
now runs WinME instead of Linux, they still thought
it was a great deal though.

There's not too much to speak of as far as compatibility
is concerned.  Most of the issues surrounded the HW...
all other issues as far as the kernel goes have been
resolved.

I don't think you'll have any problems running
an AMD machine, several people in NTLUG run em today.

Regards,
Chris

eb110 at attglobal.net wrote:
> 
> I'm thinking of building a system with the AMD Athlon
> Thunderbird 1GHz CPU. This will be the first time I'll
> move out of Intel Inside land.
> 
> My main concern is software compatibility: Apparently,
> most software should work fine but there are stories of
> incompatibilities, e.g. StarOffice 5.2 was available only
> for x86 machines, some PC games are limited to Intel
> architecture, etc.
> 
> Any real life encounters with Athlon incompatible software
> (Windows and Linux) that people have run into? Also, tips
> from anyone who has recently built a similar system will
> also be appreciated.
> Sameer
> 
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