Gustin Johnson wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >> ALDI PCs are good, but if you built a computer yourself, you can get >> all you need for half of the price. And everyone who is able to run a >> Linux, because he was reading and learning about Linux, also is >> qualified to learn how to built a computer himself, in less of the >> time he needs to know something about Linux. >> >> > Around here we have a store called Future Shop (now owned by best buy). > Their web based deals are sometimes impossible to beat in terms of > price. My DAW is in fact an older HP that I picked up for around $400 > CDN a couple of years ago from them. The older 939 pin AMD64 works > really well under Linux. > > Having said that, if you are building a DAW it really does pay to > research your hardware regardless of the OS. I learned this lesson > years ago before I made the switch the Linux (buggy VIA chipset, AMD > Athlon Thunderbird = painful Cubase experience). >
Perfect research isn't possible. ASRock K7VT2 and a Thunderbird @< 900MHz was fine with 98se and XP running Cubase SX, but the CPU run out of resources when using Linux, while there was enough RAM, for Windows 256 MB was enough, for Linux I added 1 GB to have enough RAM. Chipset was a VIA KT266A. Many Linux applications don't run on that machine, audio and MIDI were fine, excepted of a too slow CPU. I did research and so my new mobo, an ASUS M2A-VM HDMI with a BE-2350 CPU is fine for a "normal" Linux, but not for audio and MIDI production, also K3b fails for several Linux, in several ways. If I try to burn an ISO on a DVD-R with K3b it fails, if I burn the same ISO with 64 Studio's Nautilus it's fine. If I burn /home with 64 Studio's K3b upgraded to Lenny, the User for the folders and files is changed to Root (maybe not an error, but broken settings). I once had a Linux compatible modem, all modem revisions should be fine with Linux, but the hardware list ignored one chipset, exactly the one I got. It's impossible to do perfect research.
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