[AuckLUG] questions - best PC setup (Chris Marshall)

[Terri Lomax]

Chris wrote:

I have a Pentium II, 350Mhz, 128M RAM with Windows 98.
I am about to buy a dual core Athlon or Pentium Dell PC, 1G RAM, 160G
hdd, Windows XP.

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Can I recommend Studio 64 - there is a 32 bit version and a 64 bit
version, and is Debian with extra multimedia patches and fixes.

I am running the 32 bit version on a dual pentium pro with 512 meg RAM,
and the 64 bit version on a dual opteron with 2 gig RAM. The SMP kernels
install automatically if you have the hardware. M-Audio sound cards seem
to be automatically configured, as do Nvidia video cards.

It installed and ran on both machines without any fuss whatsoever.

You'll find the download here.
http://www.64studio.com/

the 32 bit version loads very little software by default - the 64 bit
version loads a complete suit of digital content programs.

You need to set up the repositories in the synaptric package manager
(find suitable sites from the list of debian mirror sites).

Set up Apache (with php, mysql etc) using the synaptic package manager -
along with any other software on the debian repositories. it all just
installs and runs.

I found updating (apt-get update) also works flawlessly.

To get SUN Java and other SUN software installed,  install "bc" and
"Xterm" (not installed by default), reboot, and then install the sun
software in a console (root) session.

regards