On Wednesday, 21 December 2005 at 7:07:42 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > Linux. Specifically, an Asus K8V-MX Athlon 64 motherboard, > an AMD Sempron64 2600, 512 meg DDR PC-3200 w/o ECC. [...] > > My question is, is the Debian AMD64 platform ready for such use? [...] > Very few happy users ever write in to say how happy they are. > Presumably I'd be using the unofficial sarge release ... or has it > become official in the meantime? Or is etch actually more reliable right now?
My experience was mixed. I put together an AMD 64 system on an ASROCK 939NF4 m/bd. I used etch, as I thought that was the only AMD64 netinstall disk (maybe I was wrong). Other than problems with the onboard nVidia ethernet and sound, the install went easily. Oh, yes, and I completely failed to get an ATI graphics card (X700) to work with it and had to swap to an nVidia. Afterwards, I found some problems with software needing 32 shared libraries that were absent, and eventually decided to downgrade the box to a 32-bit Pentium m/bd, as I was in a hurry to have it ready for my daughter (she does animation). So I am now looking to get another box, hdd and memory and start again... But I'll regard it as a learning and experimental box for now. > (mostly .mpg). Would accessing them from another machine using NFS (100 > MHz ethernet) > be fast enough for them to view them? Even if tow people did it at the > same time? We played a film about Penguins (which I was disappointed to find was not about Linux) from one box to another over NFS the other day, so probably yes. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
