On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 17:05, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com > wrote: > On 07/27 04:43 , Shawn Fertch wrote: > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220006 > > > I'd like to recycle my current personal workstation into a backup server, > so > that's why I don't want to just replace the guts of it. > > the EePC looks interesting, and may do most of what I want. I'd kind of > like > the capability for multiple monitors, and a bit more CPU power (even my > 1.4GHz laptop gets slow on a lot of flash-and-java-heavy sites); but I'll > consider it. Thanks! > > I presume the EePC has decent support for linux? Looks like the graphics > chipset is supported well. What chipset does the Gig-E interface use? > Understandable on the current workstation conversion. But, thought I'd ask in case it hadn't been thought of. 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. I followed the install directions, configuration, etc from here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC 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. 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. -- -Shawn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100727/02f80271/attachment-0001.htm