[ale] Do people still roll their own Linux desktops?

[Rich Faulkner]

I guess I'm rolling my own desktop...homebuilt AMD X2 4200+ (Manchester)/2GB Corsair DDR RAM/250/1000 on an ASUS A8N w/dual XFX 6800 GS GPU's built in 2005.  Running 9.10 at this point but looking to compile my own kernel shortly.  I'm looking at CentOS for the new build and run VM's to replace Windows (until I get Netflix talking to Linux) and whatever else I want to run for a Linux desktop and development environment.  I do graphics, systems and web development so really need the virtualization.  Them's the facts............now back to troubleshooting this Live CD for CentOS which is giving me "grief" at the moment.

Live long and support the Guiness family!    ---R1¢h

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Kinney 
  To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:11 PM
  Subject: Re: [ale] Do people still roll their own Linux desktops?





  On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

    AMD CPUs can be used for heavy and numerically/computationally intensive tasks just fine.



  Up until the most recent Intel CPU's (i5, i7, etc) AMD cpu made better number crunchers than Intels offerings due to primarily to the intrinsic memory access capabilities of the Opterons. It chopped 3-6 clock ticks off a memory fetch operation and made a HUGE improvement in recovery from incorrect pre-fetch operations. 


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  James P. Kinney III
  Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness         




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