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Has anyone tried running ubuntu on one of these ? - they seem to be
unfeasibly cheap in the UK at the moment, at around £110 delivered
(base unit only).
512 MB (installed) / 8 GB (max) - PC2-6400
1 x AMD Dual-Core Opteron 1214 / 2.2 GHz ( Dual-Core )
1 x 160 GB - standard - Serial ATA-150
DVD±RW
2 MB L2 Cache
PCI Express x1 - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
Colin Wilson schreef:[color=blue]
> Has anyone tried running ubuntu on one of these ? - they seem to be
> unfeasibly cheap in the UK at the moment, at around £110 delivered
> (base unit only).
>
> 512 MB (installed) / 8 GB (max) - PC2-6400
> 1 x AMD Dual-Core Opteron 1214 / 2.2 GHz ( Dual-Core )
> 1 x 160 GB - standard - Serial ATA-150
> DVD±RW
> 2 MB L2 Cache
> PCI Express x1 - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet[/color]
HP is generally standards (Linux) friendly.
The biggest hurdles are often the wireless and video card which you did
not specify.
On 2008-08-03, Colin Wilson <REMOVEEVERYTHINGBUTnewsgroup@phoenixbbsZEROSPAM.co.uk> wrote:[color=blue]
> Has anyone tried running ubuntu on one of these ? - they seem to be
> unfeasibly cheap in the UK at the moment, at around £110 delivered
> (base unit only).[/color]
Colin,
I run ubuntu on later versions of proliant. I think that you should be fine.
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> 512 MB (installed) / 8 GB (max) - PC2-6400
> 1 x AMD Dual-Core Opteron 1214 / 2.2 GHz ( Dual-Core )
> 1 x 160 GB - standard - Serial ATA-150
> DVD±RW
> 2 MB L2 Cache
> PCI Express x1 - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet[/color]
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> HP is generally standards (Linux) friendly.[color=blue]
> The biggest hurdles are often the wireless and video card which you did
> not specify.[/color]
I don't think it has wireless, and it doesn't tell me what the video
card is, other than it appears to use shared memory (UMA?!?)
On 2008-08-03, Colin Wilson <REMOVEEVERYTHINGBUTnewsgroup@phoenixbbsZEROSPAM.co.uk> wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>> HP is generally standards (Linux) friendly.
>> The biggest hurdles are often the wireless and video card which you did
>> not specify.[/color]
>
> I don't think it has wireless, and it doesn't tell me what the video
> card is, other than it appears to use shared memory (UMA?!?)[/color]
Proliants are servers, and servers hopefully do not have fancy video
cards or wifi. I am sure that those old Proliants do not have either.
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> > I don't think it has wireless, and it doesn't tell me what the video[color=blue][color=green]
> > card is, other than it appears to use shared memory (UMA?!?)[/color]
> Proliants are servers, and servers hopefully do not have fancy video
> cards or wifi. I am sure that those old Proliants do not have either.[/color]
It does have PCI-E though, which should make it a little more
consumer-card-friendly...