Desktop OS: To be or not to be...

[Smokin Chevy]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Mark <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Smokin Chevy <chevy4x4burb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I think that there is some confusion here.  These are not high end video
> > cards.  They were middle of the road cards two years ago.  This is not a
> > gamer rig.  The SLI bridge is not installed.
> >
> A-ha!  There's your problem right there.
>
> No, seriously, that's a fair point.
>
> > I did not know that using more then two monitors was that unusual.  I
> know a
> > few people who do and I personally have for many years.  I would have
> > thought that Linux would have come up to speed on that by now.
> >
> I usually have two monitors at work (where I don't have to pay for
> them) but it's been almost two years since that happened for me.
> Beyond that, most of the people I know who use computers, even who use
> them a lot, only have a single monitor.  Dual monitors are probably
> not *too* unusual, but more than two - yeah, that's beyond the norm.
>

Well, I see your point.  I was kinda placing the quad scenario somewhere
between norm and unusual.  My error may be in my definition.  Unusual is
"Not being usual" which I guess it is.  I would consider it not "Unheard of
though".

>
> > I have tried downloading the 260 driver directly from nvidia with the
> same
> > result.
> >
> Have you tried asking nvidia about that?  Even if your cards are a
> little old, it seems like they might be willing to help with this.
> Mine's a 7200GS (got it wrong before) that I had to get on emergency
> purpose when my 7100GS just died, about a year and a half ago - low
> end but it works just fine for me.
>

I have not contacted Nvidia.  I actually gave up on this.  I googled quite a
bit finding people with the same compatibility issue with 2+ setups spanning
multiple years.  Many posts stated that there was doubt that the
compatibility issue would be fixed.

>
> > I will swear by Ubuntu Server for my servers but the Desktop Edition does
> > not seem ready except for simple desktops.  Now these limitations are
> > pertaining to Linux, Xorg, and so on.  I just pick on Ubuntu because they
> > are the closest of the distros that I am aware of to being mainstream
> > desktop ready.
> >
> Can't really argue with that last point.  :-)
>
> I suppose if you're going to pick on a distro, Ubuntu is the right
> choice - it is reputed to be the most popular, and coming from CentOS
> I can see why, although for long term reliability and stability from a
> business standpoint, I'd be hard pressed to recommend other than
> RHEL/CentOS, largely from lack of other field experience.  My last job
> they ran the app on FC1 and one of the things I was supposed to do was
> help migrate to CentOS 5, but politics and money prevented that from
> happening.  Before that I was using CentOS 4  as an experimental "new"
> base (from SuSE 10.2, then probably SLES).
>
> Most of the non business users I know swear by Ubuntu, so I'm guessing
> that they don't push the limits of the systems as much as it seems you
> do.
>
> IOW, you have a good point and I retract most of my prior comments
> (but not the four monitors being unusual part... :-).
>
> For myself, I have found that U10.10 is flexible enough for everything
> I need, from producing documents, fooling around with sound, running
> multiple  browsers, having  Win XP VM and playing (and playing with)
> graphics, audio and video files.  But I have a mere single monitor,
> large though it be, and a simple Athlon II X4 CPU on a cheapo ECS m/b
> with only 4GB of memory, 1.7TB of disk, and a great sound system from
> at least twenty years ago that still kicks ass.  My needs are
> relatively modest.  :-)
>
> Mark
>
Lol.  I didn't mention that this machine originally had the OS on a Raid0
(ich10r fake raid) comprised of two 300GB 10K Velociraptors.  Ubuntu would
not see the raid0 but would see stand alone drives on the same chipset.  I
sacrificed and broke the raid to install to one velociraptor.



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