post your Linux Rig's specs. pointlessly powerful or amusingly weak ?
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What are you using instead of Unity?
Changing from unity clicky
Ubuntu Dock clicky
This is how l got rid of unity and used a dock instead.
Regards C.
Desktop
W7 & MacPup 528.
i7 2700k.
Asus P8Z68-V GEN3.
Sapphire HD 7970.
16gb Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey.
Crucial 128gb M4.
Kingston 128gb V100.
Kingston 128gb V100.
2TB HDD.
Benq XL2420T.
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 750W V2.
Laptop
W7 & MacPup 528.
Asus N55SF.
i7 2670QM.
GT 555M 2gb.
8gb Kingston KHX.
640gb HDD.
1600*900.
Netbook
W7 & MacPup 528.
E-350.
AMD 6310.
8gb Crucial DDR3.
1TB Samsung M8.
1366*768.
Been playing about with Macpup as no need to install
however a big fan of LinuxMint12 and looking forward to Lubuntu/Kubuntu 12.04.
W7 & MacPup 528.
i7 2700k.
Asus P8Z68-V GEN3.
Sapphire HD 7970.
16gb Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey.
Crucial 128gb M4.
Kingston 128gb V100.
Kingston 128gb V100.
2TB HDD.
Benq XL2420T.
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 750W V2.
Laptop
W7 & MacPup 528.
Asus N55SF.
i7 2670QM.
GT 555M 2gb.
8gb Kingston KHX.
640gb HDD.
1600*900.
Netbook
W7 & MacPup 528.
E-350.
AMD 6310.
8gb Crucial DDR3.
1TB Samsung M8.
1366*768.
Been playing about with Macpup as no need to install
however a big fan of LinuxMint12 and looking forward to Lubuntu/Kubuntu 12.04.Home laptop - msi CR500
Mint 10 - Gnome Desktop (32-bit)
2.1GHz Dual Core Celeron T3500
4gb ram
250gb HD
2.6.35-31 kernel
Speed - Fast
Work Laptop - Latitude E5420
Mint 12 - Cinnamon Desktop (64bit)
2.5GHz i5-2520M
4gb ram
500gb HD
3.0.0-12 kernel
Speed - Fast
Gonna upgrade my home lappy to 64bit when Mint 13 arrives.
Mint 10 - Gnome Desktop (32-bit)
2.1GHz Dual Core Celeron T3500
4gb ram
250gb HD
2.6.35-31 kernel
Speed - Fast
Work Laptop - Latitude E5420
Mint 12 - Cinnamon Desktop (64bit)
2.5GHz i5-2520M
4gb ram
500gb HD
3.0.0-12 kernel
Speed - Fast
Gonna upgrade my home lappy to 64bit when Mint 13 arrives.
Debian 6 Squeeze
AMD 3700 San Diego 2.2Ghz
512MB DDR 400Mhz RAM
IDE 80GB Maxtor
Perfectly fine for a file, torrent server.
Just wish i had more RAM to play with.
I wouldn't trust that Maxtor lol I've always had bad experiences with them!
W7 HTPC has an i5 and 16gb RAM, there's a permanent VM running CentOS 6.2 with 1 core 30gb disk and 4th Ram. No desktop running on it, just nginx fastcgi Memcache and such.
Just ordered a couple of 2 x quad Xeons with HT, 32 gb RAM and 12 tb usable Fisk in RAID 6 at work. Going to run some DBs on those.
Just ordered a couple of 2 x quad Xeons with HT, 32 gb RAM and 12 tb usable Fisk in RAID 6 at work. Going to run some DBs on those.
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Going back to my Vaio Y netbook where I'll be using Xubuntu full time.
AMD E-350 platform.
6GB of RAM (came with 4GB, I had a 2GB stick lying around somewhere, might as well use it)
32GB OCZ Onyx SSD (I don't really need huge storage on netbooks, I'll be doing some document editing, emailing & browsing, and maybe a bit of coding.)
AMD E-350 platform.
6GB of RAM (came with 4GB, I had a 2GB stick lying around somewhere, might as well use it)
32GB OCZ Onyx SSD (I don't really need huge storage on netbooks, I'll be doing some document editing, emailing & browsing, and maybe a bit of coding.)
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Xubuntu 12.04
Spec in sig
Spec in sig
I have 2 machines running Linux, although only one is actually used for anything specific.
My HTPC/File Server/Download Box and sofa browsing machine (that actually get's used for quite a lot of general web surfing, almost as much as my desktop which runs W7)
Celeron G530 2.4Ghz Dual Core
Asus P8H61-M motherboard
4GB of RAM
320GB Seagate drive for the OS and programs (this is quite old now, I had this back in the A64 days iirc, but it still works fine)
2 x 2TB Seagate Green storage drives
1 x 1TB Hitachi storage drive.
Xubuntu 12.04 'Precise Pangolin' ...I just love saying the name
This machine uses the integrated graphics and the cpu being a Sandy core Celeron is actually surprisingly fast, it's genuinely quite a powerful little cpu, considering it cost me less than 30 quid a few weeks ago, I replaced an older AMD dual core system with it. For so little money though, it does make me stop and think at just how capable it is and how hugely overpowered and expensive my desktop is by comparison (that's a 3570K at 4.2GHz now). If I put a decent graphics card (and an SSD) in this machine, it could probably do everything I would want to be perfectly honest.
My other Linux machine is just something I knocked up out of old bits I had in the loft for no better reason than I felt like it. I don't use it for anything in particular, then again I don't really trust the old Antec psu it's using.
Athlon 64 3200+ (venice core iirc)
MSI motherboard of some sort, has socket 939 with AGP so iirc that would be nForce 3 as nForce 4 was PCI-e.
1GB of rather fancy looking OCZ ram.
320GB Seagate drive (the sister drive to the one used in the above machine actually)
Geforce 6800GT graphics card, also my last ever AGP card.
Good old Lian Li PC7 case.
This is actually running Mint Debian Edition 201204 right now, with mate, which I really, really like. And I would love to use on the HTPC/Server but ...I can't get the Cougar Point HDMI sound to work with it for some reason, everything looks like it should, every indicator says it 'should' be working, but it isn't. So unless I do manage to get it going, LMDE will stay a toy on this machine...which is a shame as it's so clean and fast, more so than any Ubuntu derivative I have used ...and I've used pretty much all of them.
I was thinking about having a play with Centos on this machine, I might do that when I get a chance.
I love that backdrop, where did you get it from ...and do you have a link by chance?
My HTPC/File Server/Download Box and sofa browsing machine (that actually get's used for quite a lot of general web surfing, almost as much as my desktop which runs W7)
Celeron G530 2.4Ghz Dual Core
Asus P8H61-M motherboard
4GB of RAM
320GB Seagate drive for the OS and programs (this is quite old now, I had this back in the A64 days iirc, but it still works fine)
2 x 2TB Seagate Green storage drives
1 x 1TB Hitachi storage drive.
Xubuntu 12.04 'Precise Pangolin' ...I just love saying the name
This machine uses the integrated graphics and the cpu being a Sandy core Celeron is actually surprisingly fast, it's genuinely quite a powerful little cpu, considering it cost me less than 30 quid a few weeks ago, I replaced an older AMD dual core system with it. For so little money though, it does make me stop and think at just how capable it is and how hugely overpowered and expensive my desktop is by comparison (that's a 3570K at 4.2GHz now). If I put a decent graphics card (and an SSD) in this machine, it could probably do everything I would want to be perfectly honest.
My other Linux machine is just something I knocked up out of old bits I had in the loft for no better reason than I felt like it. I don't use it for anything in particular, then again I don't really trust the old Antec psu it's using.
Athlon 64 3200+ (venice core iirc)
MSI motherboard of some sort, has socket 939 with AGP so iirc that would be nForce 3 as nForce 4 was PCI-e.
1GB of rather fancy looking OCZ ram.
320GB Seagate drive (the sister drive to the one used in the above machine actually)
Geforce 6800GT graphics card, also my last ever AGP card.
Good old Lian Li PC7 case.
This is actually running Mint Debian Edition 201204 right now, with mate, which I really, really like. And I would love to use on the HTPC/Server but ...I can't get the Cougar Point HDMI sound to work with it for some reason, everything looks like it should, every indicator says it 'should' be working, but it isn't. So unless I do manage to get it going, LMDE will stay a toy on this machine...which is a shame as it's so clean and fast, more so than any Ubuntu derivative I have used ...and I've used pretty much all of them.
I was thinking about having a play with Centos on this machine, I might do that when I get a chance.
I love that backdrop, where did you get it from ...and do you have a link by chance?
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Here you are http://www.imagebanana.com/view/o4dg40yz/VxjJd.jpg
Got a couple of machines that are just for tinkering about with:
DL360 G5: 2 x Intel Xeon L5420's (2.5Ghz Quad Cores) // 8GB RAM (soon to be 16GB) // 2 x 72GB 15K SAS // 1 x 300GB 10K SAS // 1 x 146GB 10K SAS, Advanced ILO2 license. I need more storage. This is running Promox 2.1
Custom OcUK system (quite old now): 1 x AMD Phenom II 3.2Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM, 1 x 250GB SATA, 2 x 1TB SATA. I want to upgrade the motherboard and CPU in this to take an 8 Core.
EDIT: Forgot, HP Mini Netbook running Xubuntu 12.04 don't rate the netbook though tbh.
All good fun!
DL360 G5: 2 x Intel Xeon L5420's (2.5Ghz Quad Cores) // 8GB RAM (soon to be 16GB) // 2 x 72GB 15K SAS // 1 x 300GB 10K SAS // 1 x 146GB 10K SAS, Advanced ILO2 license. I need more storage. This is running Promox 2.1
Custom OcUK system (quite old now): 1 x AMD Phenom II 3.2Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM, 1 x 250GB SATA, 2 x 1TB SATA. I want to upgrade the motherboard and CPU in this to take an 8 Core.
EDIT: Forgot, HP Mini Netbook running Xubuntu 12.04
don't rate the netbook though tbh.All good fun!
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Okay, home stuff...
Power...
Desktop PC
Core i7 920 at 4.2 Ghz
24Gb RAM,
2 x OCZ SSDs in RAID0 (System and Apps)
2 x Samsung F3s in RAID 0 (Data)
ATI 4870X2
Running Fedora 17
Server (Slightly silly I will admit for home...)
AMD Phenom 955
8Gb RAM
320 GB OS hard drive.
3Ware 9690 Sata RAID card (16 port)
11 1Tb HDs (mixture of samsung F3s and Seagates) in RAID6
*EDIT* Forgot theHauppage dual channel S2 satelite card and a pair of dual channel terrestrial TV cards (one PCI, other USB dongle) have been trying to make the server a tuner farm using mythtv (without too much success to be honest...)
Running Fedora 14
On the weak front,
I'm about to put mint on an old laptop I've inherited which I believe is an early Pentium M with 512 Mb RAM.
If it works okay it will get taken by a freind back to Sri Lanka where he lives and be given to the local school/ kids.
E-I
Power...
Desktop PC
Core i7 920 at 4.2 Ghz
24Gb RAM,
2 x OCZ SSDs in RAID0 (System and Apps)
2 x Samsung F3s in RAID 0 (Data)
ATI 4870X2
Running Fedora 17
Server (Slightly silly I will admit for home...)
AMD Phenom 955
8Gb RAM
320 GB OS hard drive.
3Ware 9690 Sata RAID card (16 port)
11 1Tb HDs (mixture of samsung F3s and Seagates) in RAID6
*EDIT* Forgot theHauppage dual channel S2 satelite card and a pair of dual channel terrestrial TV cards (one PCI, other USB dongle) have been trying to make the server a tuner farm using mythtv (without too much success to be honest...)
Running Fedora 14
On the weak front,
I'm about to put mint on an old laptop I've inherited which I believe is an early Pentium M with 512 Mb RAM.
If it works okay it will get taken by a freind back to Sri Lanka where he lives and be given to the local school/ kids.
E-I
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Dell XPS M1530 Laptop
C2D T8100 @ 2.1Ghz
3GB DDR2 RAM
320GB HDD
Nvidia 8600M GT 256MB
Been a good laptop over the years, battery is ruined and only holds charge for about 10 minutes now but still a useful little machine. Doesn't run bad in Win7 and Ubuntu 12.04 is very nice. Really need to keep it as Vice City freaks out on my desktop PC but runs fine on this and I love going back to that now and again for a drive round Ocean Beach on a motorbike to the sound of Hall and Oates
Going to crack it open next week and clean out the fan and apply some decent thermal paste rather than the stock rubbish it came with as getting a bit too toasty at times, lot of people online have reported significant drop in temps by doing this so worth a go.
C2D T8100 @ 2.1Ghz
3GB DDR2 RAM
320GB HDD
Nvidia 8600M GT 256MB
Been a good laptop over the years, battery is ruined and only holds charge for about 10 minutes now but still a useful little machine. Doesn't run bad in Win7 and Ubuntu 12.04 is very nice. Really need to keep it as Vice City freaks out on my desktop PC but runs fine on this and I love going back to that now and again for a drive round Ocean Beach on a motorbike to the sound of Hall and Oates
Going to crack it open next week and clean out the fan and apply some decent thermal paste rather than the stock rubbish it came with as getting a bit too toasty at times, lot of people online have reported significant drop in temps by doing this so worth a go.