Re:Hardware Compatibility

[Adam <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>AMD K6-2 processor (probably 350 or 400 MHz)
>128Meg of RAM

Whatever, Linux scream on my Pentium I 200MHz.  A friend uses a fast 80486
on which all his applications cook right along.  You best bet for performance
is to get whatever processor you want but pour your money into Ram and fast
(non-IDE I/O).  My (limited, but not scant) experience tells me that 128Mb
of RAM per-processor seems to be the cut of in the bang-for-buck contest.  Go
SMP (which means Intel only) if you REALLY NEED power.  Otherwise a K6 or
whatever will make you quite happy for ordinary or even pretty heavy stuff.

>Epox MVP3G-M Motherboard (as recommended by www.anandtech.com)

Shouldn't be a problem.

>Matrox Marvel G200 TV Video Card. (I don't expect the TV out to be supported, but would like to use it for more than 16 colors.)

Sorry, don't know much about graphics cards.

>Sound Blaster Live! (again, I don't expect ALL the bells and whistles, just functional sound.)

See the hardware compatibility page at Redhat.
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/intel/rh52-hardware-intel-13.html

>Internal Zip drive.

No problem.  But I think the LS-120 is more cost effective to accomplish the
same thing.  The media is cheaper I believe,  looked into it awhile ago.

>the only other thing that wouldn't be standard might be a SCSI interface, but I haven't decided if the performance is worth the bucks.

What bucks?  SCSI is cheap these days.  I got my gear from www.onsale.com.
An UW controller for $50 and a standard for $30.  Plus a 4.5gb drive for
no more than the cost of a good IDE.  It seems to me the QC applied to 
SCSI drives is much higher than to IDE, and that itself is worth the money.
I say do it.