There seems to be something about this OS which makes me want to use it … but not permanently, I’ve tried dual booting, but it just doesn’t last, so I’ve decided to do a bit of re-shuffling of my computers.
What is currently my server will become my ubuntu box, to be honest it’s far too over-specced to do what it’s doing currently (basically a development system for me). It will be replaced with an oldish AMD Athlon box with I’ve recently acquired, with the following specs:
- AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8 Ghz)
- 256 Mb DDR Ram
- An old 8 gb hard drive for OS (same as current)
- 250 gb hard drive for storage, on a new SATA controller card.
- Old dedicated nVidia graphics
So that should be just enough to run ubuntu server quite nicely, then I’ll be using Ubuntu desktop (not sure weather to go 64-bit or not) on what is currently my server, with these specs:
- AMD Athlon 64 3500+
- 1.25 Gb DDR Ram
- 80 gb IDE hard drive
- 256 mb nVidia Geforce 6000 something graphics (hoping for wobbly windows)
I’ve also ordered a Belkin KVM switch, which will arrive tomorrow, so that’ll make the experience much nicer than using just VNC. Maybe this will be one final thing to convert me over, as pretty much all that I’m using my computer for nowadays is word processing, and web dev, so not really much “windows” is required. Although, I need VB for college, and don’t fancy learning something totally new on linux, that I probably won’t be able to work on there. So loosing windows seems to be a no-go for now.