Best OS to run on a Dual P3 xeons system

[CCrunnernb]

I will be recieving a dual P3 XEON system soon, it has U160 10k SCSI drives, and the chips are 933 P3's.. with 512 Rambus memory.. what version of windows would you recomend.. XP 2k pro SERVER *nix.. Thanks in advance


EDIT: Forgot to mention linux

 

[Fencer128]

Originally posted by: CCrunnernb
I will be recieving a dual P3 XEON system soon, it has U160 10k SCSI drives, and the chips are 933 P3's.. with 512 Rambus memory.. what version of windows would you recomend.. XP 2k pro.. Thanks in advance

What are you going to be using the computer for?

Cheers,

Andy

EDIT: The only 2 broad flavours of windows I would ever recommend to anyone are Win 2k pro or win xp home/pro (unless you get into server territory...)

 

[spyordie007]

if it's a desktop I would say either XP Pro or 2K Pro would be ideal, That should be a fun little desktop.

-Spy

 

[CCrunnernb]

it'll be a workstation

 

[owensdj]

If you go with XP make sure you go with the Professional version. XP Home doesn't support dual processors. It would help if we knew more about what types of software or what specific software you're planning on running on this workstation.

 

[CCrunnernb]

mostly encoding video.. ripping DVD's.. some photoshop

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: CCrunnernb
mostly encoding video.. ripping DVD's.. some photoshop

Well it will be okay for those tasks, but not great. I would just go with whichever you "like" more XP Pro. or 2K Pro.

-Spy

 

[Nothinman]

Debian.

And before someone complains about Debian not being Windows, video encoding, DVD ripping and image editing all work fine, as long as you don't need something Photoshop specific.

 

[spyordie007]

as long as you don't need something Photoshop specific

And if you want to run Debian for that there is Wine.

PS he did ask "What version of Windows" not "What OS"

-Spy

 

[Nothinman]

And if you want to run Debian for that there is Wine.

Wine is a hack, thankfully one that usually doesn't have to be used any more.

PS he did ask "What version of Windows" not "What OS"

I know, but frankly I don't think there's enough of a difference between Win2K and WinXP to even warrant at thread like this.

 

[CCrunnernb]

it does say Best OS.. w2k and xp are examples but none the less your comments are appreciated.. I like linux.. but theres small things that bug me. to rip dvd's in linux is a pain in the rear.. none of the versions have the utilities you need

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

The problem with !(windows|mac) isn't reallyu

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

PS he did ask "What version of Windows" not "What OS"

I know, but frankly I don't think there's enough of a difference between Win2K and WinXP to even warrant at thread like this.

Spoken like a true Linux user

 

[spyordie007]

frankly I don't think there's enough of a difference between Win2K and WinXP to even warrant at thread like this.

Now this I agree with.

Spoken like a true Linux user

correction, that's spoken like a true Linux zealot

-Spy

 

[Nothinman]

Spoken like a true Linux user

I've used both, my laptop came with XP on it, so it's not like I'm speaking without any experience.

 

[Vadatajs]

Originally posted by: CCrunnernb
it does say Best OS.. w2k and xp are examples but none the less your comments are appreciated.. I like linux.. but theres small things that bug me. to rip dvd's in linux is a pain in the rear.. none of the versions have the utilities you need

It's pretty easy to get on gentoo, for my system:

emerge -p dvdrip

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies  ...done!
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-print-0.35-r3
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libunicode-0.4-r1
[ebuild N ] gnome-extra/gal-0.24
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/bonobo-1.0.22
[ebuild N ] gnome-extra/gtkhtml-1.1.10
[ebuild N ] app-text/dgs-0.5.10-r1
[ebuild N ] media-libs/jbigkit-1.4
[ebuild N ] media-video/mpeg2vidcodec-12-r1
[ebuild N ] media-gfx/imagemagick-5.5.6
[ebuild N ] dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47
[ebuild N ] dev-perl/Storable-2.07
[ebuild N ] media-libs/libmpeg3-1.5-r1
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/lzo-1.08
[ebuild N ] media-video/transcode-0.6.3
[ebuild N ] media-video/vcdimager-0.7.12
[ebuild N ] media-sound/ogmtools-1.0.1
[ebuild N ] dev-perl/Test-1.24
[ebuild N ] dev-perl/Event-0.87
[ebuild N ] net-analyzer/fping-2.4_beta2-r1
[ebuild N ] media-video/dvdrip-0.50.13

 

[Nothinman]

to rip dvd's in linux is a pain in the rear.. none of the versions have the utilities you need

You need to do a little more research, DVD::RIP or acidrip make it simple.

 

[CCrunnernb]

gentoo.. gah, I know its very fast, but it took me days to install.. I don't wanna say that im a newb with linux, ill go with novice.. but i have ran dvd::rip and had no success. It had more dependicies then i could handle.. i download a rpm and it want 15 on top of that.. it seemed like it never ended.. OH HELP ME! lol anyways.. unless there's an easier way and im stuck in the dark ages.. ah well keep em coming.. Linux is sounding nice

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Gentoo isn't really much faster than anything else. And why are you using rpm's on gentoo?

 

[drag]

I vote for debian...

Of course debian is better not only on dual proccessors, but 486 dx's, pentium 1/pro/2/mmx/3/4 and soon to be 5. Plus on dual amd's, quad pentiums, and 8 proccessor machines, It's also realy nice in Via ITX-spec cpus/motherboards too! It's also better on Alpha machines, sparc machines, IBM machines and all sorts of servers, desktops and workstations.

But you can't call me a linux zeolot because if you give me a machine with FreeBSD or OpenBSD or OS X on it, I would be perfectly happy, plus I would probably like the GNU/Hurd OS when it comes out in next 10 years or so, too.

Even though I don know how to use Windows, it's AD, can configure it, can fix it, and can show others how to use it, I just realy don't like it. It is usually just a pain in the but most of the time.

But if you want to use it, that's great.

If you want a windows answer and that was my only choose, I would prefer Windows 2000 pro. It's a bit less resource intensive, perfectly stable (..enough). And some such. Plus I prefer it's tools for configuring the OS much much better then XP's. Plus I would hazard to guess you will probably find that it has pretty good support for that platform.

<another bad joke, don't take seriously>
Microsoft didn't realy get rid of that little paperclip dude, they just extracted his personality and made a entire new OS out of it. (XP)
</another bad joke, don't take seriously>

 

[Nothinman]

but i have ran dvd::rip and had no success. It had more dependicies then i could handle.. i download a rpm and it want 15 on top of that.. it seemed like it never ended.. OH HELP ME! lol

That's why you use a distro with apt, so it handles the dependencies for you.

 

[CCrunnernb]

when i tried to use dvd::rip this was on Redhat 9 I believe.. thats when i decided to format it all Debian.. what about gaming.. Like UT, Q3A.. can you still play those games on Debian.. and what about support for a nVidia Quadro II?