Guidelines to select a new computer for linux use?

[Victor Marquez]

Thanks Christoper,

Your recommendations about graphic cards, wireless and RAID are
interesting. Those are not concerns to me for this machine but it
guides me to look for more information in the future when I start
providing linux-based services. The refference to linuxcompatible.org
will be very usefull for years I guess.

Regards

Victor Marquez

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:57:05 -0600, Christopher J. Bottaro
<cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Victor Marquez wrote:
> 
> > Can somebody recommend me a site or document where I can learn about
> > what are the best i386 processors for linux and/or for specific tasks?
> 
> I think all the x86 processors work well.
> 
> As for the rest...
> 
> My setup would probably be pretty cheap now:
> 
> *  AthlonXP 2800
> *  Nforce2 motherboard w/ onboard sound, network
> *  Two SATA hard drives in a RAID 0
> *  Nvidia GeForce3 card
> *  generic memory, 512 mb
> 
> When it comes to video cards and Linux, Nvidia's Linux driver support is
> light years ahead of ATI I think.  All I hear about in the ATI forums is
> how people are switching to Nvidia because they can't get their damn ATI
> cards working in Linux.  Oh, I'm talking about 3D acceleration btw.  The
> open source ATI driver is great for just 2D I think.
> 
> Also, since my board uses the Nforce2 chipset, I installed the proprietary
> Nvidia drivers for it.  You don't have to, but it increased my sound
> quality a ton.  It also supposedly increase the performance of the built in
> networking...but I don't buy that...=)
> 
> If you want to go with a wireless card, check out linuxcompatible.org.  The
> Netgear WG311v3 card seems to be reported as working under Linux.  I might
> pick one up myself.
> 
> SATA worked right out of the box for me, but Linux doesn't support the half
> hardware, half software RAID crap that most motherboards advertise as
> "built in hardware SATA RAID".  Linux does a nice job at doing software
> RAID though.  If you go that route, don't expect to be able to dual boot
> though.
> 
> -- C
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