On 6/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">david</b> <<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Chuckk Hubbard wrote:</blockquote><div><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Alas, me, I can't get my ethernet, wireless, or audio to work with any
<br>> linux. Got the machine in November, and supposedly those issues have<br>> been worked out, but I can't get around them.<br>><br>> So I guess a gotcha is if you don't check all the hardware for drivers
<br>> first.<br><br>My understanding is that there are still fewer 64-bit device drivers<br>than 32-bit ones. I don't know. Only computer I've encountered that<br>wouldn't run Linux was an old Dell; it would try to boot but nothing I
<br>tried would get it past freezing. But I'm a bottom feeder, 64-bit<br>machines aren't in my price range.</blockquote><br></div>I hear that. Apparently the only 64-bit machines in my price range take the lowest bidder for wireless and audio chips.
<br><br>-Chuckk<br>