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[arunragavan]

Guys i have question guys.. i have tried to install RHEL 3 and Redhat 9.. but was kinda unsucessful everytime.. damn am jes a newbie in linux! i had problems such as hangining coz of improper hardware soundcard selection.

What i want to know is which version of Linux.. ment does Suse and mandrake support eda tools?

this is wot i want to know..

anyone who can give their valuable sugesstion@

with regards,

 

[jhonny_yang]

Guys i have question guys.. i have tried to install RHEL 3 and Redhat 9.. but was kinda unsucessful everytime.. damn am jes a newbie in linux! i had problems such as hangining coz of improper hardware soundcard selection.

What i want to know is which version of Linux.. ment does Suse and mandrake support eda tools?

this is wot i want to know..

anyone who can give their valuable sugesstion@

with regards,

Linux just a kernel ... and Suse and mandrake and Redhat is distribution another word to say is ... is a way to pakage the kernel with application.

So all can support the Eda tools ... but must look at GlibC and other library support.

 

[dedrty]

Mandrake9.1 is a good choose!

 

[asemnor]

To instal linux you may need to partition your hardware.Follow the instructions which comes during installation.

My best distro is RED HAT

 

[kobibar]

you can learn how to work in linux without installation with one of the live cds,
i really like Knoppix,
download it and burn as ISO,
it will boot linux without the install proccess.

 

[puviarasu]

What system you got is it a latest one or old one please gives the system details for suggestions

 

[donkey41]

a few suggestions :

supposing that all EDA tools, ported to x86 linux, DO work (with some caution, as mentioned above, with glibc, etc, etc.) :


choose a very simpel sound card - like creative AWE32/64 (if you have still have a free ISA slot) or PCI-128.

choose a standard graphic card - like nVidia TNT or similer ( GForce and above will need some kernel module compilation, wich may be complicated, if you dont know the tricks.)

choose a standard NIC - like RTL 8139 or 3COM's 90x series.

choose a simple optical PS/2 mouse.



perhaps, there is nothing new i have written here, but, just some guidlines.
you can spend as much time as you want with re-building the kernel for new soundcard / vga-card / usb-mouse etc.
it's complicated and time consuming.
if you want to build a dedicated linux box, i would strongly recommend you to use as much standard hardware as possible.
it will make life much easier.

regards

 

[samcheetah]

is it easy to configure linux with built-in sound and VGA. actually i have an Intel D815EEA2 which has both sound and VGA built in to it. is it going to be difficult for me to switch over to linux??

 

[puviarasu]

I have recently loaded red*hat Linux 9 on the 815 it has detected all the peripherals and worked perfectly in*tel most of the chipsets are supported by Linux kernel only it gives problems on SI*S chipset as the don’t support Linux directly (i have sis 630 vga and sound works but AGP hardware acceleration is not much there)

 

[kobibar]

I like the FEDORA distrobution

 

[userdce]

for newbies and taking the rating in consideration (www.distrowatch.com)

UBUNTU is really rocking now a days

so in my terms try

UBUNTU LINUX

 

[trilogy]

For newbies Mandrake and UBUNTU are gr8 , no pain to install and use programs, but if u r really a computer systems guy curiious of every thing happenning in ur comp. try Debian, gentoo, Slackware ( warning as wll for these distros)..

 

[netsboy]

you can try suse9.3