On 10/23/2015 01:57 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Dale Snell wrote: > >> Since you have to be up and running for the end of the month, your second >> option seems the best to me. To save some money, you might want to check >> with Free Geek and see what they've got in the line of refurbished >> systems. That's what I did when my old system went south, and the Free >> Geek box has been working like a champ. >> >> Just my two cents. > > Dale, > > Well worth the money ... and more. If Free Geek has a refurb I can put the > hard drive from the dying system in there while I work out how to configure > the new system. I'll put that in a new thread, and you're welcome to provide > comments on that, too. > > Thanks, > > Rich
Rich Sorry I didn't respond sooner...my "office day" turned into "run around PDX day." No reason you can't just pop the hard drive into another Free Geek box, regardless of CPU, GPU, or other hardware. The nice thing with those systems is that they are already vetted for Linux. As far Slackware 32-bit is concerned, it should boot right up and need minimal configuration. I've done that with a few Free Geek systems. No need to worry about 64-bit until later. X and Xfce should fire up pretty much on any of the older GPUs via the kernel's radeon or nouveau drivers. -Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
