John Heaser wrote:

I am hoping to get to grips with Linux by using an Evesham Pentium Pro 200 PC.

I have pinched the Video card to drive a second monitor on my W98 PC so have to buy a new card. Mainly for business applications but I might play the occasional game. Any suggestions for a Linux supported card please? Also any suggestions for a basic sound card and 10BaseT network card.

I have Red Hat 5.2.

I have a Voodoo 3 3000 which works very well, you can get ROM'd version of the server from a link at www.3dfx.com. As a bonus it comes with Unreal as well :-)

For sound I am using a Sound Blaster AWE64, but any of the Creative ones will work under Linux.

As for network card, I am just using a £20 PCI thing I got in Maplins which seems ok, except it gets miffed if something else has the same IRQ. My other 2 PC's have Bay Networks Netgear cards which seem to work quite well.

BTW I am currently using Mandrake Linux 6.0 (Redhat 6.0 with knobs on) which seems to work very well. It's running a little masquerading gateway so I can share my modem with my 2 windows PC's.

Hope that helps.