Does this system work optimal on Ubuntu?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:41:38PM +0200, Wouter van Vliet wrote:
> I'm looking into buying a new computer, and as much as I know about certain
> aspects of the whole computing world, I haven't really been keeping myself
> updated on which hardware is good and in particular what works good together
> with Ubuntu.
> 
> What I've put together is the following:
> 
> CPU:AMD Athlon II X2 250 3.0GHz AM3Mainboard:ASUS M4A785T-M DDR3 AM3 S-940
> RAM:4GB DDR3 1333MHz CL9 Geil (2x2GB)Grafikkort:1024MB ASUS GeF GT220 G DI

NVidia is not a good choice for an Ubuntu system.  You're either using
the closed-source driver (assuming it works) and suffering from random
bugs/crashes, or you're using reverse-engineered open-source drivers
(assuming they work) and suffering from random bugs/crashes _and_ poor
performance.

AMD/ATI is somewhat better in that they're publishing the hardware specs
and developing open drivers, but if you get their latest cards, expect
the open drivers to be unavailable yet.

Intel is the best bet (if you avoid the rare closed chipset like the
Poulsbo) for optimal compatibility, but their video hardware isn't as
powerful.  It's perfectly sufficient for fast desktop effects, though.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
"Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment".
(seen in a posting in comp.software.testing)
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