Comments on: Time for a new system http://dissociatedpress.net/2006/11/15/time-for-a-new-system/ Linux, Open Source, and Tech Journalism Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:15:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mayank Sharma http://dissociatedpress.net/2006/11/15/time-for-a-new-system/comment-page-1/#comment-4334 Mayank Sharma Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:17:30 +0000 http://www.dissociatedpress.net/2006/11/15/time-for-a-new-system/#comment-4334 Joe, not sure which mobo to recommend but avoid the Intel DG965RY. It's a lot of work (http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/%7Eandrew/wiki/index.php/DebianOnIntel965) and you wouldn't run across any distro's bugzilla without several entries for this board. But to get all the specs of the board and at its price is a steal. I'd run Ubuntu myself if only the latest stable had the kernel patch for the IDE controller my optical drive is conected to. The IDE-to-SATA connector didn't work. So I'll either get a IDE-to-USB connector or try one of the daily snapshots. As for the processor, I have the lowest end E6300 (1.86GHz, 2MB cache, 1066 MHz FSB) cause with enough memory that's more proc power than I'd ever need and it's got the virtualization extensions. http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=1957739 http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=1962027 Joe, not sure which mobo to recommend but avoid the Intel DG965RY. It’s a lot of work (http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/%7Eandrew/wiki/index.php/DebianOnIntel965) and you wouldn’t run across any distro’s bugzilla without several entries for this board. But to get all the specs of the board and at its price is a steal.

I’d run Ubuntu myself if only the latest stable had the kernel patch for the IDE controller my optical drive is conected to. The IDE-to-SATA connector didn’t work. So I’ll either get a IDE-to-USB connector or try one of the daily snapshots.

As for the processor, I have the lowest end E6300 (1.86GHz, 2MB cache, 1066 MHz FSB) cause with enough memory that’s more proc power than I’d ever need and it’s got the virtualization extensions.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=1957739
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=1962027

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