Re: New linux box

Ken Moffat
2004-01-26T15:57:28Z

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, S. Barret Dolph wrote:

> Well, my problems have much to do with hardware and it is time to get a new
> box. My old box ran for 6 years with Mandrake and never crashed. (X-windows
> crashed when setting up Matrox 450 though.) My question is what hardware is
> good to avoid. I only use my computer for work, no games, but I am on it at
> least 6 hours or more a day. I care mostly about stability and don't really
> care too much about speed. So more to the point are any of you aware of
> hardware that is a nightmare to install. Or a site which can help.
>
> Cordially,
> S. Barret Dolph
> Taipei Taiwan
> -

If it's that old, your biggest problem on anything new might be noise!
For stability with an Athlon or P4, don't skimp on the power supply. If
you don't need a lot of power, maybe something based on a via C3 might do
- but make sure you install i586 or i386 binaries, gcc usually thinks
C3s are i686 but they don't have the 'cmov' instruction.

Ken
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