Who knew this would be hard?
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
the major distros offer reasonably good support
Unfortunately, that's not true for Ubuntu...you'll pull all your hair out trying to get a wireless card to work. Switched to Linux Mint, and had much more success, although still some issues. Linux + wireless is still a bit iffy. I even bought a wireless card that had the driver supposedly in the kernel since 2.6.30, and both Ubuntu 10.4 and Linux Mint 9 (both with 2.6.32) can't see it, no matter what I try. But, Dell wireless on my laptop worked without a hitch in Linux Mint(but not Ubuntu).
Eh? Ubuntu is one of three my primary OSes I uses from the Linux camp, the other two being Debian (Lenny) and CentOS (5.2+). Ubuntu usually goes for the desktop since its slightly easier to configure for users, the other 2 are servers and primarily Debian (and recently Ubuntu LTS) for everything except proprietary software; that gets CentOS because of the RHEL compat. I have Ubuntu running on 6 machines at home, 3 of which are laptops (Linux is an awesome aqua re-vitae for old machines, so there are 11 machines throughout the house, each doing something with 4 clustered :cool:) and I have yet to encounter a wireless issue. The one issue I had was with my graphics card, but the was resolved when they released a patch. I'm not saying that you don't have a problem, but I'm wondering if you hit their forums? Linuxquestions.org? They really help out. What I find surprising is that they work on Mint but not Ubuntu, when Mint is essentially a new face on Ubuntu! They do almost no development on their systems. All in all, Linux is a lot better than FreeBSD when it comes to variety and quantity of drivers; FreeBSD on the other hand, when they release a driver, you can bet your pair that they work right. FreeBSD is hands down, my preferred server machine when I can use it.
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I want to buy a computer for virtualizing and entire development network and I can't seem to find what I want! Basically, a newer i7 with 12+gb ram, integrated graphics, and a dvd drive. I don't want to spend money on fluff like graphics cards and blueray players or fancy cases with blinky lights. I may just build it myself but I would rather have a pre-assembled unit. (Dell is out because, well they suck) Any suggestions?
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Why wouldn't you build it yourself? I've built every one of my desktop systems (and a few for friends and family) over the past 15 years, probably a total of 10 or so. It's easy, and to me, the only way to get exactly what I want. One potential drawback is if something breaks on it, there's no calling someone to fix/replace it, it's all on me... But good luck no matter what your decision!
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Eh? Ubuntu is one of three my primary OSes I uses from the Linux camp, the other two being Debian (Lenny) and CentOS (5.2+). Ubuntu usually goes for the desktop since its slightly easier to configure for users, the other 2 are servers and primarily Debian (and recently Ubuntu LTS) for everything except proprietary software; that gets CentOS because of the RHEL compat. I have Ubuntu running on 6 machines at home, 3 of which are laptops (Linux is an awesome aqua re-vitae for old machines, so there are 11 machines throughout the house, each doing something with 4 clustered :cool:) and I have yet to encounter a wireless issue. The one issue I had was with my graphics card, but the was resolved when they released a patch. I'm not saying that you don't have a problem, but I'm wondering if you hit their forums? Linuxquestions.org? They really help out. What I find surprising is that they work on Mint but not Ubuntu, when Mint is essentially a new face on Ubuntu! They do almost no development on their systems. All in all, Linux is a lot better than FreeBSD when it comes to variety and quantity of drivers; FreeBSD on the other hand, when they release a driver, you can bet your pair that they work right. FreeBSD is hands down, my preferred server machine when I can use it.
If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Playing Star Craft II. Don't bother me, eh? Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?
I guess I was just unlucky...but I tried to install Ubuntu on 4 different computers (2 desktops, 2 laptops), and I couldn't get a wireless card to work on any of them. Linux Mint worked for me...who knows. I did hit the forums, but not specifically linuxquestions.org, I'll have to give that a try. Thanks for the tip. I'm pretty happy with Linux Mint, in general. That's one of the things I like about Linux, lots of 'flavors' for everyone! :cool:
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Why wouldn't you build it yourself? I've built every one of my desktop systems (and a few for friends and family) over the past 15 years, probably a total of 10 or so. It's easy, and to me, the only way to get exactly what I want. One potential drawback is if something breaks on it, there's no calling someone to fix/replace it, it's all on me... But good luck no matter what your decision!
If a pre built machine existed within my requirements it would likely be cheaper than building it myself. I am not opposed to building one; I am just in the research stage atm.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. I also do Android Programming as I find it a refreshing break from the MS. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost
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I want to buy a computer for virtualizing and entire development network and I can't seem to find what I want! Basically, a newer i7 with 12+gb ram, integrated graphics, and a dvd drive. I don't want to spend money on fluff like graphics cards and blueray players or fancy cases with blinky lights. I may just build it myself but I would rather have a pre-assembled unit. (Dell is out because, well they suck) Any suggestions?
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. I also do Android Programming as I find it a refreshing break from the MS. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost
I went through this last year when I decided to virtualize my home network. To get what I wanted, building it myself was the easiest way to achieve the level of price/performance I was after. I put together a Core i7 with 12 GB of RAM, and about 6 TB of disc space. I built it all myself, which I've been doing for two decades, so that was no hassle. I used an ASUS motherboard that is capable of going to 24GB. I stopped at 12 GB because none of the local stores stocked the 4GB memory, and special orders were too expensive. I used the free VMWare ESXi 4.0 bare-metal software for the base OS, and have the system sliced up about 6 ways between Windows and Linux servers. It's great to have an entire network of servers running on a single box. I've got IIS and Apache web servers going, plus SQL Server and MySQL, serving up about 4 or 5 domains. All of this is accessible from a client on my Windows 7/64 desktop, so I can flip from environment to environment with little more than a mouse click.
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First machine I actually remember "working" on its internals with my dad was an XT. The awesome part was when we installed a hard disk for the first time. Now when I wanted to play my games get to work, I didn't have to do that pesky 5.25" floppy swap thingy at the beginning :) I remember from MS-DOS 2.0 till 6. I remember another machine, a 387 (386 with math co-processor) that ran on 16 MHz and when I clicked the Turbo button, it went up to a wopping 25 MHz! (not that you could feel any change in ability mind you) I remember :)
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I remember when you could take a 386DX40 and swap out the CPU and FPU for a 486DLC2/80 and "487"DLC2/80, which was actually just a clock doubled 387 with a name change. Coupled with 128 KB of 15ns level 2 cache it would beat the pants off any 486DX2/66. or..before that.. swapping out an original 8088 for an NEC V20 or an 8086 for an NEC V30 Chip... __________________ Pour me something and tall and strong...
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First machine I actually remember "working" on its internals with my dad was an XT. The awesome part was when we installed a hard disk for the first time. Now when I wanted to play my games get to work, I didn't have to do that pesky 5.25" floppy swap thingy at the beginning :) I remember from MS-DOS 2.0 till 6. I remember another machine, a 387 (386 with math co-processor) that ran on 16 MHz and when I clicked the Turbo button, it went up to a wopping 25 MHz! (not that you could feel any change in ability mind you) I remember :)
If the post was helpful, please vote, eh! Current activities: Playing Star Craft II. Don't bother me, eh? Now and forever, defiant to the end. What is Multiple Sclerosis[^]?
That was luxury! The first business desktop I remember had a Z80 processor, 48Kb (Yes I did mean kilobytes), ran CP/M and was a serious word processing system (Wordstar) and had 1 or 2 400Kb floppies. Things have come a heck of a long way in 30 years and the majority of people are still not happy with the performance on their desktop
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I remember adding 8 K to my Apple II and thought it was plenty of RAM. After all those cassette tapes only held so much.
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Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
I have a very old machine, it has 16MB of memory, it has SIMM[^] type and ran 98 Big Grin
I've still got a fully functioning ZX81 with an awesome one whole kilobyte of ram running at an unbelievably fast 3.25 MHz. Those were the days; thats what you call REAL computing power, not like these 3GHz+, 16+Gbyte ram pussies that you get these days. :laugh:
There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.
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That was luxury! The first business desktop I remember had a Z80 processor, 48Kb (Yes I did mean kilobytes), ran CP/M and was a serious word processing system (Wordstar) and had 1 or 2 400Kb floppies. Things have come a heck of a long way in 30 years and the majority of people are still not happy with the performance on their desktop