Upgrading my motherboard & processor

[Laurent Asorne]

On Thursday 27 September 2007 11:55:27 D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Thursday 27 September 2007, Laurent Asorne wrote:
> > Actually, my video card is an Riva TNT2 (think it has nvidia Gforce2
> > chipset) running alright with the nv driver. So, I don't think there will
> > be any difficulty from the video side, even if the chipset changes?
>
> Nope.  It should boot right up then.  Now working and taking full advantage
> of the new hardware, you'll have two more concerns.  First, I'm not sure if
> stock K/Ubuntu kernels are compiled for SMP.  I think they are, but I'm not
> sure.  You may need to swap in a new kernel to take advantage of both
> processors, but this is fairly trivial.  The other thing is if you want to
> switch to a 64-bit distro, it is, of course, a total distro changeover. 
> Your existing 32-bit stuff will work fine, and whether you should even
> bother with a 64-bit distro is a subject for a debate I won't rehash here. 
> It's been argued to death, even right here.
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre

I think i'd rather stick with this distro for the time of migration and 
install a 64bit version of Kubuntu beneath this one afterwards. So i have the 
time to check if all components work with Kubuntu before doing a new complete 
installation. That seems to be the best way to be sure everything would work 
fine. The easiest way would be to buy a completely new computer, but it would 
cost me too much €'s ...

Laurent

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The box said 'Requires Windows XP or better'. So I installed LINUX