The test platform is a machine guaranteed to work with
Linux, sold by one of LJ's advertisers. It has an ASUS
motherboard, an AMD 486 DX/4 100 CPU, 16MB of RAM, an
ET4000/W32-based video card with 1MB of DRAM, a 15 inch Chuntex
monitor, a 1GB SCSI hard drive, a 4X SCSI cdrom, a PCI NCR
53c810 SCSI controller, and a 3C509 Ethernet card. All this
hardware is supported by the standard Linux kernel and has been
supported for some time; any distribution which does not
support that test hardware should probably be considered
outdated at this time. All of the tested distributions
supported our test platform.
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