Building new machine -- Ubuntu compatible?

[Derek Maciel]

Yeah, that's mostly why I wasn't too worried about my processor, I was
more worried about the video card, as it's the reason why I can't run
Ubuntu right now.

P.S. Xubuntu uses more RAM than Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu.

On 11 September 2010 21:50, Leonardo Augusto
<leonardodearaujoaugusto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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