Mobo got hosed. Any recommendation?

Bui Viet Dung dcdr.ubuntu at gmail.com
Sat Jul 21 11:21:23 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 09:32 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hello all,
> My old and loyal desktop PC at home got hosed recently after years of 
> servicing my - sometimes "brutal" - experiments on it. It's a Gigabyte GA7xx  
> something (VIA chipset) with AMD Athlon 1GHz.
> 
> I'm looking for a replacement. Something very economical in terms of pricing 
> and it should be very friendly with Linux. And as a "nice to have" feature is 
> preferably the display adapter will be able to run Beryl.
> 
> Any recommendations are welcome :)
> Thank you.

I would suggest to take a look at system76.com to find a cheap and
ubuntu-compatible desk/laptop. Or dell.com/open would be another choice
if you like Dells. For Beryl, Nvidia card is the only way to go. ATI/AMD
sucks on AIGLX support.

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