Re: [tlug] Please advice for a new equipment components under Linux

[Doug McLean <dmclean635@example.com>]

If you're looking for an alternative, I'd go with a Mac Mini.  I've
owned two in the past, and the cheap price, and rock solid hardware
have worked well for me.  My previous machine dual-booted both Mac OS
X and I think Ubuntu.  That worked out nicely enough, though my wife
didn't like the dual-booting, so I had to run Linux/BSD off of VMbox
on the second host we got.

Minis are not powerful, so forget about gaming, but for basic needs,
the price/stability and now Pentium architecture can't be beat.  :)

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Christian Horn<chorn@example.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 05:12:34PM -0600, Pietro Zuco wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:42:59 +0200, Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > But if you know for sure you will need a proprietary driver any-
>> > way because of the requirements of your applications then nvidia
>> > should be preferred; less pain to install.
>>
>> I'm little bit lost with this.
>> If I have to work with proprietary drivers that maybe will force me to use
>> only one distribution or a reduce set of them?
>
> If you need the best performance because of games or 3d-applications
> you have to use proprietary drivers, either of amd or nvidia.
> Of those two drivers the one from nvidia is easier to use.
>
> Probably both can be used with all distros but the newest ones
> like fedora11 currently.
>
>
> Christian
>
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