Before xmas I got a nice new AMD64 board with a 3000+ processor and
512Mb RAM - I ripped my old K6-233 motherboard (which ran FB1 nicely)
out of the rack case and set it up.

I have always used SUSE so I loaded version 9.1 which was the last DVD I
had, and for a week I tried to play with the thing. It kept dropping
back to power-off over night, or just locking up.

Over xmas it has been running with W2k on 24/7 no problems so I THINK
that the hardware is fine. I got a new SATA hard disk that was supposed
to be with it last year, but was late, and in the last two days I've
reinstalled from scratch 4 times. The only thing that seems stable is a
raw install from the DVD, any updates seem to cause problems.

The board is a K8NS-Pro. Anybody using it with Linux - which
distribution - and thoughts?

I want to get to a point where I am able to start playing with FB2 on
this machine (along with PHP5) - including looking at source code (
which I've never been able to do on Windows because I am on Borland
compilers only ;) ) Any suggestions as to where I head next. At present
I'm loathed to pay for a copy of SUSE9.2 even though the SUSE list say
it will work - they say 9.1 works as well :(

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Lester Caine
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L.S.Caine Electronic Services