On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:49:15PM -0800, Don wrote: > > I'm finally getting fed up with my ancient Pentium 60MHz 96MByte Ram, > machine and am thinking of buying a replacement for the sole purpose > of running Fedora.... I don't really care if the GUI works, I'll > probably set the machine at runlevel 3 (is that the one for "normal" > use, non-gui?) Yes. See /etc/inittab. > > > > But, I would like to be able to run X if I needed to... > > > > From what I've seen on this list there's a lot of comments/problems > with nvidia graphics cards.... if I'm looking to buy a machine, should > I avoid nvidia all together? And if so, what's a better choice? I just installed Fedora Core 1 on an nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev 178) on an ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard, and I have exactly one video glitch, which may be motherboard related. I'll research and document it in detail and post to the list. The Fedora Xfree86 "nv" driver is doing just fine once I get X running. > > > > I'm looking to spend around $600-$800 ... I don't need a monitor, > keyboard, mouse, I don't even need a large hard disk. I thought I > would remove whatever hard disk comes with it, putting in a "spare" > 120GB disk I have. Heck, check out Walmart.com. They ship boxen to the US with Lindows for $US200 & up, plus shipping. Noisy, though. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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