On 06/22/2012 03:52 PM, Pete Theisen wrote: > On 06/22/2012 04:36 PM, Leland Jackson wrote: > >>> Timeless advice - but he said affordable. I guess we don't know what he >>> means by that . . . >> I went ahead with a high end specification; although, the same >> principles would apply, regardless of you budget restraints. When my >> original post mentioned 3mps and 6mps, it should have been 3gps and >> 6gps. LOL > Hi Leland, > > So, have you gotten the hardware you posted about, or you at the > drooling stage? I am at the drooling stage! > > I find the 6 GB box at my school desk is really cool. Sit there trying > the things the Professor talks about while he is talking. If it flubs > ask him about it in real time. He gets paid by the gummint to answer my > senile/dumb questions. As an "over 60" I get to attend the class free! > > Fedora 16 is, uh, *different* than Ubuntu, Puppy, Mepis and Gentoo that > I have noodled with in the past. So, if I win the lotto and get the hot > box you describe will any desktop Linux actually run on 32 GB?
That depends on what all you install. The kernel is the main part of the OS and must fit into memory, (eg it cannot be swap out to disk). I'm running Fedora 16 with a couple of WD RE4 500GB drives. I occassionally backup my primary drive by putting a mirror image on the 500gb secondary drive. You could run Linux in 10 gb for a minimal install. You should add to that for anything else you might want to run like VMs, databases, etc. My desktop is getting a little dated, but here it is: ASUS M4A89GTD Pro motherboard 2 x WD RE4 SATA 3.0 gb/s disks 16 gb Kingston DDR SDRAM 1600 Memory Antec Performance One Series P183 V3 Tower Case ADM Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz, 3.7GHz Turbo Socket AM3 125W Six-Core processor PNY 9800GT 1024MB Nvidia GeForce Graphics Card PCI Exp[ress WD 2TB RE4 Sata 3.0 gb/s disk 750 GB USB 2.0 WD MyBook disk 200 GB Maxtor disk Regards, LelandJ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
