On 11/03/2014 09:36 PM, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: > A. First off, you shouldn't need a GUI on a webserver anyway. If you need any X > applications, just forward X from your desktop (ssh -X webserver). Could you sound like any more of a hardcore Linux guy? :) The computer is in my garage. I like the monitor to work to pull up the occasional service manual PDF, etc :) It also happens to run a webserver that gets close to 0 traffic :) > > B. Upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 was a pain for me, too. It went smoothly on exactly zero of > my machines, to the point where I just reinstalled a few from scratch and just > reinstalled everything and copied the configurations over. My own webserver went that way. My main system was a bit better... but it still did a bunch of random stuff I didn't care for. Seems like every distro has this curve where they set off better than the existing ones at the time... maintain it for a while, then just ruin it over time :( > > C. I believe most these cards are PCI-X 16: http://pics.freakzilla.com/videocards.jpg > > If you want to comeup to Shoreview and get one, let me know. > Thanks for the offer! Shoreview is a bit of a haul for me - I'll see if the other is closer to me first. At least 4 of them look like PCI-X to me. The fanless one is maybe AGP? They all look like overkill for my needs :) Thanks, Dan
