WHat do ya think ?

[MrKnisely]

Frank McCormick wrote:

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>p4 2.66 with 256 ram and 40gbb hdd. nit has cd rom and network connection. has 6 usb ports and does not have any pci slots for expansion. Intel® Pentium® 4 ™ processor Intel 865G chipset with Intel Extreme 2 integrated graphics Integrated Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit ethernet for HP 533 MHz processor front side bus support SMART III Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive SoundMax Digital AC97 integrated audio with internal speaker 6 USB ports Dual channel DDR 333MHz (PC2700) memory
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>   Does anybody see problems running Dapper or even Breezy on this machine ? Have there/is there problems wth the Broadcom net card? of the integrated audio ?
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>Frank
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I've run Ubuntu on HP systems with these Broadcom NICs without issue. 
Ubuntu picks them up automatically, something that XP CAN NOT do.

Looks like a fun system to me!

Mike K.