[NTLUG:Discuss] Test machine help

[Stan Gatchel]

guile,

Thanks for the response. This is not all I can afford. I have a main
machine (AMD 64) but use it to run my small business. Can't afford to be
testing distro's on it and accidentally take it out. So the idea was to
use this older machine to try out different distro's and see which one
would be a good choice for the production machine. Then I would install
the full version on the production machine having some confidence in the
distro and the installation process.

I think the test machine could use some more memory and perhaps a better
supported video card (Matrox?). If you have anything like this, I would
be glad to buy it.

One more thing. From my choice of distro's you probably guessed I like
KDE. Just my preference.

Are you going to be at the Linux Fair?

Thanks,

Stan

guile at stupidfactor.com wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stan Gatchel" <sgatchel at psltech.com>
> To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 1:23 PM
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Test machine help
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>> I am on the prowl for a new distro. No more reading reviews. That led me
>> to SuSE 10.1 which was not good. Now, I want to try them first (live
>> CD's). I have an older machine purchased in 2001 which I thought would
>> ok for this. So I bought a bunch of Live CD's to try. When I booted
>> them, they all gave me distorted graphics (narrow band of diagonals) on
>> the screen or other messages (like graphics card not recognized). I
>> suspect the old ATI rage graphics card. Below are the spec's for the
>> machine. Maybe an old Matrox card would do better?
>> Here is the disto list:
>>
>> Sabayon 3.1
>> Elive 0.5
>> Freespire 1.0
>> SimplyMEPIS 6.0
>> Kubuntu 6.10
>> Mandriva One 2007
>> PCLinuxOS 0.39a
>>
>> Here are the machine specs
>>
>> Hardware Brand Bus Comments
>> CPU AMD Athlon (i386)
>>
>> Disk WD400BB-53CAA0 IDE
>> Disk WD200BB-00AUA1 IDE
>> CD-RW PlexWriter (PX-W1610A) IDE
>> CD-ROM N/A
>>
>> Display ATI Rage Fury Pro/ Xpert 2000 Pro (128) PCI Card type AGP --
>> Northbridge adapter?
>> Floppy Yes
>>
>> Memory 250 MB
>>
>> Modem Agere V.90 56K Winmodem
>>
>> Net Card Dlink 10/100
>>
>> USB 2 ports (USB 1.1)
>>
>> Sound ASUSTek Deluxe motherboard (RealTek ALC850 codec)
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>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Stan
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> Do you want to run it on older hardware or is that all you have/can afford? 
> I have plenty of surplus hardware so if you need anything email me and I'll 
> let you know if I have it. Of course anything I have in surplus will be 
> donated if you need it.
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> -guile 
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