Thanks for your reply, Rod....
What is the easiest (best supported) sound card supported? I don't want
'stunning' sound, I just want less hassles :-)
I basically want a fast box for running local apps, with as little
hassle as possible to set up, ie, completely supported installing
Mandrake 7 or the latest release available of that distro, as I have
found this the only one to run stabilly (in conjunction with my limited
experiance ;-) )
Do you know how well the GeForce (32 MB) is suppoorted, and/or, would I
be better off just chucking in the Diamonfd FireGL 1000 (8 MB) that I
have laying around?
I am a Linux newbie, so could you explain or give me an example of
running a remote X app? Do you mean running another app over the
network? If so, I don't think this will be much of an issue.
And finally, what would be better...a dual Celeron or a fast Athalon, or
a PIII? Don't the Celerons have limited caching capabilities?
And... on a personal entertainment level... are there cool games
available for Linux, like Duke Nukem, Quake, Descent, Half Life... these
impressed me under Linux...
If this should be posted somewhere else, I apologize, and will bring it
to another NG.
--
David Short
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> Just a couple of random comments:
> For a home network it's good to have one Linux box as the Internet
> gateway/firewall, also as file/web/mail/dns/etc server. That way just
> one machine needs to be up all the time, and Linux does it all with
> more flexibility than any flavor of Windows.
> Definitely get 10/100 NICs, they are not much more than the 10Mbps
> variety and it puts you in a better position to upgrade. The faster
> speed will matter if you do things like running remote X applications
> (which is pretty cool).
> Consider Athlon, or dual Celeron, instead of the PIII. More speed for
> less money.
> VMware is good. 256M with VMware is good.
> -- Rod
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> >Hello Group...
> >Now that I've had this Linux box up and running well for a few
> >months,I'm about to pass the 133 PC running Mandrake 7 (running nicely,
> >but a bit sluggish) with Gnome Enlightenment as the front end down to my
> >daughter...
> >I'd like some recommendations on hardware, I will be wanting to run
> >Enlightenment/Gnome with EFM, but want very good performance. Would like
> >this to be a file server as well... Right now, the network is the coax
> >type (10 mb bnc), and I'll probably stick with that... then I won't have
> >to change to a hub or the already installed and working nics.
> >Currently connecting through a win2k machine with Internet sharing set
> >up, which works well.
> >Will be using VMWare in case I need to run Win apps
> >Basically, I want good performance... not having to wait, so I can
> >concentrate more on learning the OS better.
> >I'm thinking:
> >PIII 650
> >133 MHz bus speed MB and RAM
> >256 MB RAM
> >GeForce video w32 MB Ram (need some recommendations here on
> >compatability)
> >20 GB IDE HDD
> >Plain old nic (need some recommendations here on compatability)
> >Sound card (need some recommendations here on compatability)
> >CD ROM (should I get DVD?)
> >Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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