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Model	SUSE Linux Release	Hardware Support				Remark:
		Video	Sound	Ethernet	Other
Life PT MT5	8.n-10.n		Onbaord (Oak)		Modem	All components recognised "out of the box". Installed cleanly with each version (8.1 needed to delete and re-instert Audio card). Used with multiple nVidia cards (MX440, Ti4600, FX5700LE, FX5900XT) Winmodem removed - no analogue telephone line. Various removable media used (CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, plain DVD-ROM), no compatibility problems with SUSE encountered.

Legend:

Works to some extent

Does not work

Not Tested

Not Applicable

Life PT MT5

Not a sparkling performer, I have an older Evesham XP2000+ which is much faster and it will never win any awards for its quietness. This is because the Medion line are built down to a price. That said, the machine has been a reliable workhorse over the years.

I bought it as a cheap box to experiment with Linux on. It has had a variety of versions of SUSE thrown at it over the years and it gets all the hand-me-down parts from my main machines. It has run 24/7 as a Samba and Cyrus IMAP server for a year without a whimper, extra hard disks thrown in, removable media and graphics cards swapped on a regular basis... It is currently doing duty as a 10.1 Beta test machine.