AMD System with Linux?

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
You don't need much for a home webserver. But if you want a decent board, I'd go with one of the dual athlon boards. I've got an older one with just 1 cpu in it now. Works great.

Sacrilegious! AMD cpus are so cheap! put another in there!

Maybe when I get money, and an AMD64

 

[p1800volvo]

Dual AMD's is a little too much power! This will run from home, and it is not exactly running an app server!

The KT600 it is then! I would rather have it work the first time. I want to spend my time on this system running the site, not patching the system with the latest driver.

 

[pitupepito2000]

I agree with the rest.

I would suggest a Barton 2500+
512MB of RAM
80GB HD
decent board
video card get a NVIDIA because they have better driver support in linux than the ati cards.
Also two nic cards

This setup should be a killer setup for linux since it doesn't use a lot of resources. If you have two nic cards it would allow you to use your sytem as a firewall and router too. I would suggest first trying knoppix and then once you get accostumed to it you can install it to the hard drive. You can get knoppix from www.linuxiso.org ; it is a bootable linux distribution.

I hope this helps,
pitupepito

Notence you have your rig setup ask in the Operating Systems forum to learn more about the endeless things that you can do with linux.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i've run the abit nf7-s, a 2500+, and used an nvidia video card in linux with no problems at all (makes a nice webserver

works great !!

 

[Mik3y]

dont get separate video card, because the nforce 2 chipset has a built in geforce 4 mx440 in it.

 

[nitromullet]

Not sure where it came from that the VIA KT chipsets were better supported under Linux than the nVIDIA chipset, but it is not the case. Not only is there kernel support, but also drivers in nv's website. Currently the only piece of hardware I have that I am unable to use under Linux is the VIA VT6410 IDE RAID onboard RAID controller on my motherboard. I had no problems with the nForce2 in the past, except when it came to driver issues with an ATi vidoe card. ...at that time nVIDIA included their AGP/GART driver with the their video driver, so if you were using a non-nVIDIA vid card, it made things a bit more difficult, but his applied to 3D acceleration only.

 

[Justorq]

get the new Via KT880
it's more powerfull than the KT600

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy
i despise onboard video, extra $30 and you'll free up countless CPU cycles.

...not if X only runs when you feel like doing GUI administering. And doing that, you're network-limited even with a P200.
For the workstation bit...all you really use is RAM. Very few video cards get any benefit for normal work under linux, save the few games you can run.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
Not sure where it came from that the VIA KT chipsets were better supported under Linux than the nVIDIA chipset, but it is not the case. Not only is there kernel support, but also drivers in nv's website. Currently the only piece of hardware I have that I am unable to use under Linux is the VIA VT6410 IDE RAID onboard RAID controller on my motherboard. I had no problems with the nForce2 in the past, except when it came to driver issues with an ATi vidoe card. ...at that time nVIDIA included their AGP/GART driver with the their video driver, so if you were using a non-nVIDIA vid card, it made things a bit more difficult, but his applied to 3D acceleration only.

nVidia doesn't like to give out documentation for programmers to write drivers. I've got probably a dozen install disks at home that wouldn't work on an nVidia nForce board, but would work fine on a VIA. VIA has been quite helpful to developers recently.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: p1800volvo
Dual AMD's is a little too much power! This will run from home, and it is not exactly running an app server!

I know, I just like the quality of the boards. My recent dual cpu boards have been pretty good. Plus, they can help out with Distributed Computing projects