On Wed, April 9, 2014 11:43 am, Len Ovens wrote: > On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > >>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Chris Metzler wrote: >>>> So, I'm looking to find out about hardware vendors. Specifically, I >>>> want to know about: >>>> >>>> 1. folks selling fully-built machines with Linux in mind, so that >>>> there'll be no real worries about any hardware compatibility issues; >> >> Almost 2 yrs ago I got a custom configured machine from >> http://www.endpcnoise.com/ that's been running very nicely. >> They installed Ubuntu on it. > > Those all look nice. Which video card did you use? They look to sell all > ATI video cards and don't mention what the "onboard video" interface is. > How well does it (the video) work with Linux? > > Video is something I am trying to grasp as to what my needs are. The > reality is that I don't need huge video performance. I don't do gaming, I > do browsing and music. > If you don't want the extra power of the cuda cores on a dedicated highend GPU from NVidia or ATI which can give impressive performance gains for doing things like transcoding then you can live very comfortably with a more energy conscious intel gpu onboard and the open source drivers. I can run 1080p with most of the opengl API supported with an onboard hd4000 equivalent https://01.org/linuxgraphics/ - Also make sure to check if the BIOS supports so called "legacy BIOS" unless you are comfortable having to add a fat32 partition to install the UEFI rootkit and spyware on your machine to give the NSA direct access to your backdoor. Some people care about that kind of thing. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
