| Revision
History |
| Revision 4.0 |
2007-11-02 |
Revised by: esr |
| Major revisions by Jonathan Marsden on
SATA, bus standards, DVDs and other topics, followed by a cleanup
pass from me. |
| Revision 3.3 |
2007-18-13 |
Revised by: esr |
| Updated for 2007 conditions. CRTs are
dead. BTX is dead. CD-ROMs are competely generic now. USB modems
are recommended. |
| Revision 3.2 |
2004-10-28 |
Revised by: esr |
| Fix and remove bad links. |
| Revision 3.1 |
2004-08-03 |
Revised by: esr |
| Sound cards don't matter any
more. |
| Revision 3.0 |
2004-02-21 |
Revised by: esr |
| Power-protection stuff moved to UPS
HOWTO. DIMM memory is gone. Tape drives don't make sense any more.
Lots of the theory from my "Ultimate Linux Box" articles now lives
here. |
| Revision 2.4 |
2003-02-22 |
Revised by: esr |
| URL fixes. |
| Revision 2.3 |
2002-08-06 |
Revised by: esr |
| Buying at the low end isn't a lose
anymore. I recommend Athlons. Nuked the section on video standards,
EDID takes care of all that now. Also removed the section on older
memory types. And keyboards, as the "ergonomic" ones all vanished
along with the 1990s carpal-tunnel scare. |
| Revision 2.2 |
2002-08-05 |
Revised by: esr |
| New section on DVD drives. |
| Revision 2.1 |
2002-07-08 |
Revised by: esr |
| Corrected Kingston URL. Various small
updates for the last year. This HOWTO is much more stable than it
used to be. |
| Revision 2.0 |
2001-08-09 |
Revised by: esr |
| Major update. Revisions based on
Ultimate Linux Box experience. Caches are on-chip now. DDS4 tape
drives are here. 486 machines, CD caddies, and most non-DDS backup
technologies are gone. |
| Revision 1.1 |
2001-06-13 |
Revised by: esr |
| Mid-2001 update. |
| Revision 1.0 |
2001-02-06 |
Revised by: esr |
| Initial revision; but see the history
in the introduction. |