Oh and BTW...I made a decision yesterday. I won't be upgrading my hardware after all, as much as I'd like to.
This secondary PC (1.2 GHz AMD Duron) running Ubuntu is running pretty well and I've almost got everything configured just the way I want it. It's slower than my defunct hardware, sure, but the effect is not as pronounced on Ubuntu Linux as it would be on Windows. Yeah, encoding speed is slow, but bearable. There's nothing about the way anything operates that I can't live with. Funds are tight right now and this PC was just sitting around gathering dust. I had intended it for a secondary application which hasn't panned out yet. I might as well use it. Of course it precludes VM but I don't want to reinstall Windows at this point as I more or less have everything I need. No showstoppers anyway. Now if this hardware goes "poof" I will probably be forced to upgrade, because after this the fastest hardware I have is from my first PC, a 400 MHz AMD K6-2. That may not be fast enough to run Linux with a GUI. And I don't even want to think how slow that would be at encoding with FLAC 1.1.2 (there's no 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 for Debian yet) at -8 compression! -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34505 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
