I don't think you are saving time or money using old hardware.
What about this? $70.
The J1900 CPUs are known to work well with LinuxCNC.
If you search the list I think you will see several references to them.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157497
I have a server running a J1900 with Ubuntu 12 LTS and it installed with
zero issues. Its been running for a few years now.
There is a reason why old PCs go cheap..
I would use a Pico power supply with it and a small SSD. I have found
the PICO power supplies (the real ones, not the clones) to be more
reliable than conventional power supplies.
I can get 2-3 years out of conventional power supplies when run 24x7,
but I have yet to have a failure with a Pico and I have installed
several over the last 5+ years. I don't know why.
Dave
On 10/18/2017 4:49 AM, Lester Caine wrote:
On 18/10/17 07:46, John Dammeyer wrote:
I think this thread says it all about this particular GeForce MX 440 and Linux.
I tried apt-get for envyng-gtk and it no longer exists.
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1029381
But it looks like back in 2009 there wasn't a lot of support from NVidia for
this board. I wonder why it works so well with Knoppix?
I'd had to swap my multihead Nvidia card to an AMD based one to get
things working with OpenSUSE ... Still problems getting a reliable cross
screen desktop, but seems to be better support on SUSE for the AMD based
cards. When a recent update wiped the setup, help from the suse forum
gave a boot fix to restore operation. As I said, the days of VGA cards
that just worked even on multiscreen is long gone :(
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