BareBone System Info

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Ben Duncan <linux4ms at aim.com> wrote:
>  > run away.  680i are universally buggy in Linux.
>
>  Ok, Know that now .... Any chipset recommendations ?

Nothing VIA or ATI, that's for sure.  Intel's workstation line are
good, as is NVIDIA's MCP55.

>
>  I might relent and get the AMD Phenom Quad series.
>
>
>  Again, suggestions ?
>
>  How about good quality nVidia Video cards, nothing fancy, just that can
>  handle dual monitor setups and run decent under Linux ... Not going
>  to play games, just a lot of basic Linux graphics and Vmware stuff..

All NVIDIA graphics cards meet those criteria.  Define "basic Linux
graphics".  There's nothing that VMware is doing that requires any
accelerated hardware graphics support.


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