Re: Opinion on best system to run Linux
- From: Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:21:48 -0500
kalyanmalla@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am looking for a PCsystem to install Linux . I need a very good
> performance and which can withstand CPU hungry application.
I had that problem a couple of years ago. I looked around and did not like
any of them. So I assembled my own from parts. Now I intended to run
Linux-only on the machine, and dual-boot my old machine with Linux | Windows
XP Home (which is too stupid to run both CPUs in that machine, but good
enough for Quicken and TurboTax).
I was going to tell you about the dual processors, 6 hard drives, etc., in
there, but your idea of _very good performance_ and mine may be quite
different. So what I did may not suit you. The best way to "design" a new
computer is to istrument your existing computer, find out where the
bottlenecks are, and ensure that the new machine has wider bottlenecks.
For my machine, I was very sensitive to hard drive seek times, so I put in 6
smaller hard drives instead of one giant one. And four of them are 10,000rpm
Ultra/320 SCSI ones (the other two are 7,200rpm EIDE/100s, scheduled for
replacement with SCSI ones when the money tree blooms). Also lotsa memory to
preclude paging and allow large caches in the dbms.
> I tried to install redhat and suse on my AST pentium3 machine and it did
> not work.
What is that supposed to mean? What Red Hat distribution did you try to
install? They are not making the usual "retail" versions anymore, so all the
"Red Hat Linux" stuff out there is obsolete and unsupported. The stuff they
support is called Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and if you get that, they will
help you on their web site or over the telephone.
Could you not install it? If not, why not? What were the error messages?
What other symptoms of not working were displayed?
Or could you not configure it correctly? What symptoms did you experience
after the system was properly configured (or configured as well as you could)?
Or did it not work as you expected? What did you expect?
> I am fed up with my windows XP and it is vulnerable to lot of
> spyware,adware and lot of security holes Any input is highly appreciated
> regards -ss
I got fed up with Windows 95 by early 1998, and switched to Red Hat Linux
5.0 at that time. It was so much better than Windows that I wondered (and
still do, to this day) how Microsoft can sell software at least 15 years
behind the times.
But until we know where the bottlenecks are, and how much you are willing to
pay to get around them, I do not see how anyone can advise you.
BTW, I have never saved money by building my own. OTOH, I do get to put in
quality components, do not put in stuff I do not need, and know what is in
there, why it is in there, where it is in there, and so on. So if it quits,
I can fix it.
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