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                        Hi all,

been thinking about migrating away from windows but i have two issues one hardware and one software.

Years ago in the 80's i was a UNIX (and UNIX variants) GURU and spent many thousands of hours in that OS till about 94 or so then more and more clients were on Windows so I had to follow suit. And I played with one of the earliest versions of linux back in, I think 91 or 92 can't remember for sure.

I have a box with an EVGA 780i,  2 EVGA 8800GTX vid cards, 4GB Kingston SLI ready Memory and 2 500GB Sata drives.

Does linux support this hardware?

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                        all new linux version is supported this hardwares. Nvidia support a its hardware of driver, memory is supporting integrated and disk drivers.                    </div>
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                        i have mandriva 2008 and i have put the drivers for the 8800 ultra geforce and i have multiple monitor function working no problem . i only have problems with my sound card which is a creative xfi , cant seem to find drivers for it. few little things but i am fairly new to linux so i have to find my way around.

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                        creative xfi is a loss. very buggy driver from creative

still for most new hardwares, linux support is even better than windows

consider linux kernel updates every one or two months, windows updates every some years

[quote=Karl]i have mandriva 2008 and i have put the drivers for the 8800 ultra geforce and i have multiple monitor function working no problem . i only have problems with my sound card which is a creative xfi , cant seem to find drivers for it. few little things but i am fairly new to linux so i have to find my way around.

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