Greetings, everyone.

I recently won an IBM NetVista in a drawing from my local Computer Renaissance. It has a 40-GB hard drive, 512 MB of RAM, a floppy drive, and a CD-ROM drive. The graphics card is not part of the motherboard, but is "built in," I was told.

The machine comes preloaded with Windows XP Professional. The machine is well-refurbished, so it cannot be too old, but I don't have access to the model number at the moment. (I can get it, however.)

I have read at least one comment in the JustLinux forums indicating that the NetVista computer is somewhat lacking in quality. Does anyone have any experience with the NetVista?

Finally, and most importantly, is anyone running Linux on a NetVista? I would like to use this machine as a server for a training kit I have for learning PHP and MySQL (using the included SuSE Linux 9 server), and my client machine will be running SuSE Linux 10.1.

Thank you, in advance, for your help!

Cordially,

David