[gentoo-user] [OT] building an inexpensive gentoo box
Hi, all, I'm looking for hardware recommendations for building a new gentoo box. Primary use will be kids doing schoolwork: some internet browsing, email, im, school reports and running tux-racer at a decent speed. In other words, nothing demanding that I spend premium $ for performance. I would like accelerated 2-d X11 performance for tux-racer, and don't mind using proprietary drivers such as nvidia's to get it. I'd appreciate any recommendations on mobo/processor/graphics card for this application. Thanks! John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] building an inexpensive gentoo box
John Blinka wrote: Hi, all, I'm looking for hardware recommendations for building a new gentoo box. Do you have a bigger machine around on the same LAN, on which you could do the building of packages? Would you want a desktop machine or a notebook/laptop? Alexander Skwar -- I understand why you're confused. You're thinking too much. -- Carole Wallach. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] building an inexpensive gentoo box
Alexander Skwar wrote: John Blinka wrote: Hi, all, I'm looking for hardware recommendations for building a new gentoo box. Do you have a bigger machine around on the same LAN, on which you could do the building of packages? Would you want a desktop machine or a notebook/laptop? Desktop. There are several other machines on the same lan with 2.2 ghz celeron ds. I'm a little masochistic about package building, having put gentoo on a 150 mhz laptop with 40 mb of memory. Long builds don't bother me. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
