Building new machine -- Ubuntu compatible?

[Leonardo Augusto]

Almost every (even really old school computers - pentium 133 like) computer
can run xubuntu...
It's pretty fast, with average eyecandy, with all the ubuntu support (from
both canonical and the community)

On 11 September 2010 21:59, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> Derek Maciel wrote:
> > Some nice points you bring up. A few things I'd like to add though:
> >
> > I won't be doing any gaming on Ubuntu, but instead, dual booting
> > Windows 7 x64 (I don't have a licence key for Windows XP x64). When it
> > comes to gaming, many of the games I like to play are only available
> > to Windows, and my friend has recently purchased the Radeon, and I
> > really like it, which is why I'm going with it. However, if you feel
> > I'd get more performance on both Linux AND Windows for about the same
> > price or maybe a bit more, than of course I'll go with the nVidia. ;)
> >
>
> Now that's a tricky question... I don't really follow much in the gaming
> news, so I can't tell you which will be better for your purpose..
> However, Nvidia, while still releasing Linux drivers, has all but
> abandoned Open Source developers, whereas AMD has been progressively
> releasing more and more of their drivers in working Open source
> editions, so not only will that Radeon 5000 work with AMD's binary
> driver, in the future, you won't need binary driver.  This is a really
> good thing, (mostly because ATI binary drivers are horrendously bad)
>
> >
> > About the RAM: I've never had a computer with more than 512MB of RAM,
> > and even the computer I'm using right now is 512MB. With that aside,
> > I'm planning on buying a single 2GB stick of RAM just to get it built
> > and to save up money for the graphics card, and then maybe later I'll
> > buy an additional 4GB stick.
> >
>
> Personally, I would never even consider buying a mini board.  With all
> the work I do refurbishing and updating older computers, the limitations
> of fewer slots always becomes a problem down the road.  For Long term
> system, spending the extra $40 - $50 now for a full ATX board is,
> IMNSHO, the way to go.
>
> Modern systems get better performance with Dual Channel Memory
> configuration.  That requires that your memory DIMMS be installed in
> matched pairs.  IE, if you want 2GB ram, you would need two identical
> 1GB DIMMS to get Dual Channel configuration.
>
>
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