On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Fons Adriaensen <f...@linuxaudio.org>wrote:
> After more than 10 years of service my first ever Linux system > died yesterday. The original configuration was P4, 0.5G memory, > two IDE HD of 60G each, and it pretty much stayed like that. > Two years ago the power supply blew up and was replaced by an > external one (too big to go inside). Last year the first HD > failed, and yesterday evening the second. > > This was the system on which I developed almost everything I > ever released, so it carries lots of memories... Maybe one > of the reasons it decided to go to the eternal processing > fields was that it couldn't really cope with A3. I've mixed > 20+ tracks using A2 on that system, but 350MB resident memory > for an empty session was just too much... > > The new zita1 will probably be a Fujitsu P510, one of the > reasons being that this is one of the few still having at > least one PCI slot, so I can still use my sound cards. Any > suggestions for alternatives are welcome ! > > More CPU and memory will in the end make me less frugal, but > I'll resist the tendency :-) > > Ciao, > Another one bites the dust... Should've run Non on it instead. Seriously though, it's a shame. Fortunately, there are still quite a few motherboards out there with at least one PCI slot. I trust you had everything backed up!
_______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev