new to linux, I need hardware help.

This is a discussion about new to linux, I need hardware help. in the Linux Hardware category; hi, My church is redoing it's computer system, and we are getting a linux based server. I am completely new to this, and havent a clue whether or not some of this is relevent. Could somone/someones please tell me which or if all of these hardware components are compatible with Red Hat 9.

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hi,
 
My church is redoing it's computer system, and we are getting a linux based server. I am completely new to this, and havent a clue whether or not some of this is relevent. Could somone/someones please tell me which or if all of these hardware components are compatible with Red Hat 9.0.
Here is the list. (from monarchcomputer.com)
 
Motherboard- Gigabyte 7n400pro-2 Nforce2
 
Processor- AMD Athalon XP 2700
 
Memory- 2- 256mb DDR(333)2700 Copper OCZ
 
Hard Drive- 2- SATA Seagate 80 GB Barracuda 7200 RPM
 
RAID 1
 
Cd-RW- ASUS CRW-5224A 52*24*52 CD-RW IDE FlextraLink
 
Floppy- Mitsumi 3.5
 
Video Card- MSI G4 MX440 T8x 64MB AGP TV-Out
 
Well I think that is it, Thanks for all of the advice,
 
Dan

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The only thing I would be worried about is SATA drives. I'm a Debian user so I'm not sure what RedHat has done to support these drives. You may want to do some google searches on SATA support in linux.