Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 2008/12/1 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 2008/12/1 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 2008/12/1 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 2008/12/1 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 2008/12/1 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 2008/12/1 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 2008/12/1 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 2008/12/1 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name:
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/5e3cc570/attachment-0001.pgp -- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:15 + From: Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 2008/12/1 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part
[ubuntu-uk] Swindon school asks for ubuntu help
I see in the edubuntu users list that there is a request for initial help from a school in Swindon - they are considering starting to use ubuntu (edubuntu) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have also pointed them to this uk list, although anyone in this list who is in th eSwindon area might like to be aware? [extract from edubuntu list] I have talked to the schools senior leaders and the network manager here and people are certainly interested in the school clients/servers being switched to open source (for cost reasons initially). In fact, I'm slowly introducing the idea to staff and students already. The network manager and I would love to come by to meet up with people on this list to discuss feasibility. Can you let me know when the next such event is happening? We would need a fair bit of help getting ourselves skilled up and we would be regular posters on this list. [end extract] -- alan cocks Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:05:04 +0100 From: Seb Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20081201/573bffc7/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:52:42 + From: Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair standard stuff 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) dual layer DVD-+RW 19 wide HannsG monitor Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU It was a grand total of about ?300 but I had to make sure I got good components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked Abit motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. They used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:11:46 + From: gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:52:42PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). I've not really found a massive multi-core chip to be needed on a modern Linux desktop, recently I've moved over to an Atom processor on my desktop, this board: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147222 Works beautifully under Ubuntu and Debian for me and the whole system runs with an 80W power supply, rather than the hundreds of Watts these big rig machines use. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Reverse the polarity of the communications circuit -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url :
[ubuntu-uk] Fosdem
Anyone on this list going to Fosdem next year? http://www.fosdem.org/2009/ John -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
Yup, Andrew, may I suggest you check your settings either on your phone or with Gmail? We're getting multiples on this side. Cheers Bruce On 12/2/08, John Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys I did not sign up to get spammed with 24 emails for no real reason I don't mind reading replies etc but not for no reason. John Sent from my iPhone On 2 Dec 2008, at 08:08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice
gav wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:46:54PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm considering an Atom Dual Core for my server (it's currently running an Athlon 1400) although I'm not sure what to do after reading this http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-atom-efficiency,2069.html The Atom seems to work fine for DVD playback, if that helps you judge on the video side of things, I use an external USB DVD on the machine. I've no interest in BluRay yet so I can't tell you how it handles that. It's possible that a dual core Atom might be able to handle it, I doubt without a HD compatible video card that it would be up to the job. Sods law HD playback on the video card under Linux seems to be either non-existent or in the very early stages. Like everything though I don't doubt it'll happen eventually, not so sure about FLOSS Bluray playback though. From that review, it looks like the chipset it holding the Atom back, 4W for the processor but 22W for the chipset seems backwards. However that chipset is well supported under Linux, especially the hassle free, open driver 3D support. Yeah it's a shame, I presume it takes a while to develop a chipset, I guess Intel are probably working on addressing this. What I'd like though is to get hold of one of the new low power Athlons coupled with the low power AMD chipset which is already available (AFAIK the CPU's aren't readily available yet although the motherboards are in MicroATX form factor). Looks like these companies are finally starting to sit up and think about developing more energy efficient solutions anyway which has to be a good thing. When I finally get around to building a MythTV box I'm hoping to put some low power and low noise components in there (but possibly not an Atom unless it's up to playing 720p video). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
It could be something to do with the iphone getting itself in a twist. I think i have seen something similar some where? Regards Bob On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Bruce Beardall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, Andrew, may I suggest you check your settings either on your phone or with Gmail? We're getting multiples on this side. Cheers Bruce On 12/2/08, John Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys I did not sign up to get spammed with 24 emails for no real reason I don't mind reading replies etc but not for no reason. John Sent from my iPhone On 2 Dec 2008, at 08:08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/08, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: OT CPU Advice (Seb Ward) 2. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 3. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 4. Re: OT CPU Advice (Chris Coulson) 5. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 6. Re: OT CPU Advice (Rob Beard) 7. Re: OT CPU Advice (gav) 8. Re: OT CPU Advice (Darren Mansell) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Robert Flatters, AMBSC -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
Apologies to all those I annoyed this morning - I didn't lock my mobile as I left for work and managed to walk 2 miles replying to the list. Maybe that will teach me to read my e-mails before i get out of bed.. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2
On 02/12/08 17:43, Andrew Nixon wrote: Apologies to all those I annoyed this morning - I didn't lock my mobile as I left for work and managed to walk 2 miles replying to the list. Maybe that will teach me to read my e-mails before i get out of bed.. It's a very well trained pocket you have there :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fosdem
2008/12/2 John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone on this list going to Fosdem next year? http://www.fosdem.org/2009/ I'm planning on going with Manchester Free Software. Whereabouts in the country are you? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Servers
2008/12/2 Simon Wears [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, long story short: 32 bit or 64 bit server, and 8.04 or 8.10? Do you want stable (8.04) or something a bit more recent (8.10) ? How much memory do you have? If you want to use anything more than 4GB RAM then you'll need the 64 bit version. For a server I'd probably go with 64 bit anyway, whereas for a desktop machine I'd probably go for the 32 bit version since I've had problems with the 64 bit version and it can have problems with certain apps like java and flash (being fixed I know). -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Thoughts on Songbird?
Any thoughts on how Ubuntu plays with the 1.0 release of Songbird? http://getsongbird.com/ Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Servers
Simon Wears wrote: I went down to MicroDirect earlier today, and bought myself a shiny new Intel Quad Core Q6600, clocking at 2.4Ghz per core. I was so happy to be finally replacing my 2.6Ghz Celeron (single core), which struggles to even do 2+2 it seems. I got back into my flat, and replaced the CPU, only to find out that although my motherboard supported Quad Core CPU's, it seemed to support every one but the Q6600. Needless to say, I was very unhappy to have wasted my money. Have you checked to see if there is a bios update available? Might be worth having a look if you haven't already. You never know. Now, I've put it into a MSI P965 Neo board (which hates linux when you have both SATA and PATA drives plugged in) and it runs incredibly well. My load average is 0.05, 0.06, 0.03. Big shock for me, I'm used to load averages of 2.00+ ! Now, I'm going to install Ubuntu Server on this new machine, and I was wondering what is recommended for this CPU. It's 64-bit, so should I get the 64 bit server, or the 32 bit server? I seem to recall reading that the 64 bit desktop is kinda buggy, but the 64 bit server is fantastic. How much memory are you running in the server? Also, is their any significant difference in the 8.04 and 8.10 servers? I'm more swaying towards the 8.04 Server, since its LTS, but if Intrepid server is more awesomer then I'll go for that. So, long story short: 32 bit or 64 bit server, and 8.04 or 8.10? Cheers, Simon. Well if it's over about 3.5GB memory in there it'll have to be 64-bit to be able to make use of it, otherwise I'd say 32-bit unless you have a good reason to go 64-bit. I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid 64-Bit on my desktop and it runs fine. Hardy 64-bit was also fine before that. (My desktop has 4GB memory!). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Servers
Simon Wears wrote: Stability is more important for me. The machine currently has only 512mb of RAM (stolen from my desktop) but I'm headed to the shop tomorrow to pick up 1Gb or 2Gb of RAM. I'd say stick 32-bit on it unless that is you need to run a specific application that requires a 64-bit CPU? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Servers
So, long story short: 32 bit or 64 bit server, and 8.04 or 8.10? Do you want stable (8.04) or something a bit more recent (8.10) ? How much memory do you have? If you want to use anything more than 4GB RAM then you'll need the 64 bit version. For a server I'd probably go with 64 bit anyway, whereas for a desktop machine I'd probably go for the 32 bit version since I've had problems with the 64 bit version and it can have problems with certain apps like java and flash (being fixed I know). Doesn't the Hardy server kernel have Physical Address Extensions support enabled by default? That'd grant support for up to 64GB RAM on the 32 bit version of Ubuntu. Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice
Gents An interesting diversion to the original topic. I keep a watch on http://linuxdevices.com and there's quite a few mini form factor Atom based stuff coming through that although primarily aimed at the embedded market, could be easily used to become a fairly green workstation; in fact some are so targetted. Now with Ubuntu also being ported across to the ARM architect, that could certainly open up even more interesting configurations for those with a tinkering whim. Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Beard Sent: 02 December 2008 16:20 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice gav wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:46:54PM +, Rob Beard wrote: I'm considering an Atom Dual Core for my server (it's currently running an Athlon 1400) although I'm not sure what to do after reading this http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-atom-efficiency,2069.html The Atom seems to work fine for DVD playback, if that helps you judge on the video side of things, I use an external USB DVD on the machine. I've no interest in BluRay yet so I can't tell you how it handles that. It's possible that a dual core Atom might be able to handle it, I doubt without a HD compatible video card that it would be up to the job. Sods law HD playback on the video card under Linux seems to be either non-existent or in the very early stages. Like everything though I don't doubt it'll happen eventually, not so sure about FLOSS Bluray playback though. From that review, it looks like the chipset it holding the Atom back, 4W for the processor but 22W for the chipset seems backwards. However that chipset is well supported under Linux, especially the hassle free, open driver 3D support. Yeah it's a shame, I presume it takes a while to develop a chipset, I guess Intel are probably working on addressing this. What I'd like though is to get hold of one of the new low power Athlons coupled with the low power AMD chipset which is already available (AFAIK the CPU's aren't readily available yet although the motherboards are in MicroATX form factor). Looks like these companies are finally starting to sit up and think about developing more energy efficient solutions anyway which has to be a good thing. When I finally get around to building a MythTV box I'm hoping to put some low power and low noise components in there (but possibly not an Atom unless it's up to playing 720p video). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] screensaver freezing
I have just bought a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Ubuntu. It is actually for my girlfriend, her old laptop is about to stop working. It had Windows XP Pro, but I also installed Ubuntu 7.10 on a separate partition, however, that stopped working and she carried on with XP. I offered to buy her a new laptop, and she agreed to have it with Ubuntu, anything other than Vista. Well, so far the laptop is working okay, except that when the screensaver is running, and I press a key to kill the screensaver, the whole thing just freezes. The screensaver image is frozen, and no key presses do anything. I have to press the power button to reset the laptop and reboot. The screensaver is Helios. Running Ubuntu 8.04.1, with Gnome, standard Dell install with a few extra software programs, but no major changes to the system. I have updated Ubuntu online with the latest updates for 8.04. I have changed to a different screensaver (SlideScreen) to stop the problem in case it is Helios. Also I changed the setting for Power Management to not switch off the screen (it was previously set to switch off after 40 minutes). I wonder if perhaps the more fancy screensavers are just too much for whatever graphics hardware is in the laptop? David King -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Swindon school asks for ubuntu help
Alan, I'm not in the Swindon area - but would be very interested to hear more from this person. I'm also not on the edubuntu lists - any chance you can post this response to the list for me to pass on my details? Regards, Andy Loughran alan c wrote: I see in the edubuntu users list that there is a request for initial help from a school in Swindon - they are considering starting to use ubuntu (edubuntu) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have also pointed them to this uk list, although anyone in this list who is in th eSwindon area might like to be aware? [extract from edubuntu list] I have talked to the schools senior leaders and the network manager here and people are certainly interested in the school clients/servers being switched to open source (for cost reasons initially). In fact, I'm slowly introducing the idea to staff and students already. The network manager and I would love to come by to meet up with people on this list to discuss feasibility. Can you let me know when the next such event is happening? We would need a fair bit of help getting ourselves skilled up and we would be regular posters on this list. [end extract] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
