In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:14:14 +0000
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> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 11 January 2008 21:45 : \____
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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>> wrote
>> on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:08:45 +0000
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>>> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 11 January 2008 17:15 : \____
>>>
>>>> Ouch...but hopefully this will keep them on their toes
>>>> and everyone gets a better product.
>>>
>>> At the moment, I only recommend AMD/ATI because of the
>>> willingness to assist Linux (it's not just the open
>>> source drivers). Intel I would avoid for being a
>>> corrupt pack of criminals at the top and NVIVIDIA,
>>> which has been the most Linux-friendly for years,
>>> is suddenly left behind ATI. Did you know that in
>>> a recent benchmark ATI on Linux was 20% faster
>>> (in terms of framerate) than on Windows?
>>>
>>
>> No, but that's mildly interesting if and when I consider my next PC. :-)
>
> The Kayak at work, you mean?
My setup is a little more complicated than that. The Kayak
XM600 is at home, and at the moment is unpowered (since
I now have my laptop I'm not sure how much point there
is in repowering it). :-) He might have an ATI card, but
would have to check.
I have two desktops at work, both Dells. The laptop
is an HP/Compaq nx9010 (512 MB), and with tuxonice and
a replacement battery (the original one was apparently
fried), the battery works very well, though I've found
that acpi -V and the Gnome battery monitor don't see
quite eye to eye on time estimates; the Gnome monitor
tends towards the optimistic. The laptop is ATI and is
OpenGLX capable, though it lacks many of the extensions.
(At that, it's got more capabilities than my one Dell,
which refuses to do anything more complicated than 16-bit
GLX for some screwball reason. Unfortunately, the laptop's
display can't do more than 1024x768, but that's OK for
lightduty work, and with Linux/ssh/X I can remotely
access it, displaying email on my main screen.)
Suspend and hibernate aren't quite as cooperative, though
I think it's an issue with the boot line; it suspends but
doesn't restore but instead just goes through a normal
boot sequence. Half the battle, I guess.
My "base" machine is an underpowered 320 MB Pentium III,
but with lots of disk space (yes, it's named 'sirius');
my main home machine is a 1.4 GHz Athlon which has 512 MB
and an nVidia card, but which makes enough noise to wake
the dead -- or my downstairs neighbor.
As for my next PC...a man can dream, can't he? :-)
My one Dell is a dual-boot; the other one is pure Linux as
the Windows XP decided to fry part of its mind and refuse
updates from our AV system. Dual-booting into XP is a
rather limiting experience, especially if the AV decides
to rescan the entire disk, slowing everything down on an
OS that wasn't all that speedy to begin with -- even with
1 GB RAM.
> Well, I find that it's rarely needed to buy a new
> PC if you are using a versatile O/S where you can choose how lean or fat it
> should be. I'm still using sub-2GHz PCs at home and at work. Works well with
> the latest KDE, despite the small amount of RAM.
>
Indeed.
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