-> TOM WALKER wrote in a message to CHARLES ANGELICH:

->  TW> I do have Personnal experince that you cannot just assemble a junk
->  TW> box of components and have it function under LINUX though.

-> Gee,  that's funny,  because I have several machines doing just that here.

Two out of two machines here.
One 486 circa 1993.
One Celeron 433.
All hardware recognized.
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