<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 17:05, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrome@real-time.com">chrome@real-time.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On 07/27 04:43 , Shawn Fertch wrote:<br>
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> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220006" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220006</a><br>
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I'd like to recycle my current personal workstation into a backup server, so<br>
that's why I don't want to just replace the guts of it.<br>
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the EePC looks interesting, and may do most of what I want. I'd kind of like<br>
the capability for multiple monitors, and a bit more CPU power (even my<br>
1.4GHz laptop gets slow on a lot of flash-and-java-heavy sites); but I'll<br>
consider it. Thanks!<br>
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I presume the EePC has decent support for linux? Looks like the graphics<br>
chipset is supported well. What chipset does the Gig-E interface use?<br></blockquote></div><br>Understandable on the current workstation conversion. But, thought I'd ask in case it hadn't been thought of.<br><br>
I'm not too familiar with the desktop version of the EeePC. But, I do have a EeePC 900 netbook and works great with Debian.<br><br>I followed the install directions, configuration, etc from here:<br><br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC</a><br>
<br>So far, everything works. While it's not an issue with the desktop, I upgraded the RAM from 256MB to 2GB (I think it's 1GB in the desk top) and upgraded the SSD from 4GB to 32GB (I believe it's a 160GB SATA HDD on the desktop). Unless I'm really taxing the system, it doesn't bog down for general day to day use. I bought a USB external DVD-RW drive for it for when needed.<br>
<br>There are limitations to the smaller devices. But, if you primarily use it as a workstation and not do a lot of heavy graphic intensive stuff, you should be okay. Not sure how you would get around multiple monitors. I personally don't like using more than one monitor so that's never been a consideration for me.<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-Shawn<br>