Re: New Computer purchase, what parts?

I've been using a dual "dual core" opteron (dual 285's) machine on a Tyan s2892 Mobo (K8SE), with an nvidia 6800 GTO card, and MAudio 2496 sound card. SL5.4 has run flawlessly, including installing Netbeans, skype_static, virtualbox with windows, and vlc with the libdvdcss hacks. I have had this

Re: New Computer purchase, what parts?

Chris, I'm enjoying 5.3 on a dual processor (x dual core) Dell--uses Xeon processors. It's been up for 174 days--work on the incoming power interrupted it last autumn. Seems pretty solid--would imagine that other Xeon or core i7 should be equally stable. Clint -- Clint Bowman

Re: ACPI Error

-- Le (On) 2010-04-13 +0200 à (at) 20:03:45 madhus...@gmail.com écrivit (wrote): -- > Dear Users, > > Am trying to install scientific linux 5.4 (i386) in my new laptop ( intel i5 > processor) but am getting the following error > > ACPI Error (ps args - 0355) : [\_PR_CPU0_PPC] > Namespace lookup

Re: New Computer purchase, what parts?

Chris Tooley writes: > Of course I'm also searching around already but I was wondering if > anyone had any suggestions from which I could start. Since it will be a workstation, I would spend some effort to provide a quiet system. Spec quiet fans, lower wattage CPUs, etc. I've had good luck wit

Re: New Computer purchase, what parts?

I do not have any specific experiences with new hardware, that is tested with SL 5, but I would recommend, that you could give any RHEL 5- compatible computer a try. For example those HP-Workstations are mentioned as RHEL 5 compatible: HP Z800 Workstation (KK564ET)

Re: New Computer purchase, what parts?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When you say two processors I presume you mean two physical multicore CPU's? If you mean a multicore system (e.g. one quad core i7 CPU) we have some HP Elite 7000 MI's that seem to work just fine provided you use the contrib nvidia-x11-drv package (o

New Computer purchase, what parts?

Hello all, I've been tasked with purchasing a computer with 2 processors at least (not just multicore) has anyone experience with hardware that works flawlessly with SL 5? I'm leaning towards Intel processors - would I only be looking for Xeon or are there core i7 dual processor motherboards

Problem mounting cifs

Hello, I've some problems mounting some folders, located on NAS-Devices. One is a old freecom fsg-3, the other one is a newer Netgear Duo. When I'm mounting the folders into a mountpoint in my user-folder using fstab, i can open, delete, copy or rename files using nautilus without any proplems