Re: [Sheflug] A New Linux Box

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom

On Saturday 25 October 2008 08:36:42 Tom Burke wrote:
> Where would you start? Would you buy a cheap desktop from PC World/
> Dell/Whoever and replace the standard OS with Linux? Or would you
> buy components (motherboard, case, etc) and build a new computer
> yourself?

My own personal point of view is to agree with some of the many UNIX 
system administrators that I have met and worked with.  I used to 
build PCs for IBM and Compaq.  So, just like other people working in a 
commercial environment I like to build my own.   Hollywood and NASA 
prefer the AMD processors and so I like to use AMD dual or quad core 
64 bit processors with lots of RAM.  1Gb to 4Gb or thereabouts.

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS works well with this.  The present 8.10 release (not 
quite released) is not suitable for a working commercial environment 
just yet.  Desktop ?  I thought you wanted a server ?  Plenty of 
choice from Gnome/KDE3/KDE4/Others.  Other than that OpenSuSE 11.1 can 
be good.


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Richard

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