On 19 Feb 1998, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Greene) writes: > > > I work for a company that assembles computers and I am interested in putting > > together computers that will come preloaded with Linux, and I am wondering > > what people would consider necessary for a good Linux Box, and then we will > > start offering Linux-Ready Units. (If my boss okays the concept :-) > > > It should have RAM, some more RAM and even more RAM. Put in at least > 64 megs of RAM and a sufficiently large hard disk of some 2 gigabytes > or more. But only SCSI please and don't bother with Adaptec since > they are more expensive than they are actually worth. Better choose > something by Symbios Logic. I'd count processor speed to be only the > fourth item in the list and consider it relatively less important than > RAM and HD size. Did i mention to put in even very much more RAM? ;-)
Yes, RAM is very important. And if they are going to use X, in which case you need more RAM, a fast video card and a good monitor are also good things to have. Take a video card with at least 2MB (V)RAM which is well supported by XFree86. You can read a lot about video cards in the files in /usr/lib/X11/doc. > P., who is very content with a P133 and 64 megs of RAM *8^) I started with 8 two and a half years ago and soon upgraded to 24, which was a huge difference. The recent upgrade to 48 has shown that more RAM always makes a difference. My P75 with slow IDE drives is still very useable, even with bloated programs like Netscape. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
