[Lazamataz]

John, some concern has been voiced about Video card interoperability. The box I am putting this on is a CREAKINGLY old Gateway, a PS-50, which has a Pentium -- barely. It was sold in 1994. The odds of me having vidcard compatibility are vanishingly small, no?

[kevkrom]

The box I am putting this on is a CREAKINGLY old Gateway, a PS-50, which has a Pentium -- barely. It was sold in 1994. The odds of me having vidcard compatibility are vanishingly small, no?

Not necessarily... in fact, you may have better luck getting it to work because it's been out there longer. On the other hand, if a driver doesn't already exist, good luck finding someone to help you reverse-engineer for such old hardware... :)

[AFreeBird]

The box I am putting this on is a CREAKINGLY old Gateway, a PS-50, which has a Pentium -- barely. It was sold in 1994. The odds of me having vidcard compatibility are vanishingly small, no?

Actually, with the older cards you'll probably find better support than the newer ones. Still bugs crop up, but most Linux distro's are pretty quick to respond (unlike some other $oftware company that shall go nameless). I think you'll find with that old machine that Linux outperforms the other guys OS. Informal benchmarks on my two almost identical machines has Linux blowing the doors off the Windoze based one.

[altair]

If it was sold in 1994, you very likely have complete support. The biggest problem is with the latest graphics cards where the vendors refuse to release the specs and the driver has to be reverse-engineered. That takes time.