Now, We are running..

Over the weekend I found a 60 gig drive deep in the back of my closet. Naturally, I have it now installed in the office computer. Now, no more running virtual machines. Having this fast of a duel core processor, isn't quite something Im use to in Linux, so Im enjoying it immensely. Later down the line Im going to replace the motherboard, since this one is driving me nuts. Im thinking about replacing it with another cheap board, a Asrock p965

Up and Sortof Running

Taking another stab at this Linux only office, for now I have Linux running in a virtual machine via the program VirtalBox. While its just as easy to repartion and in install for me, I wanted to run some tests first. So far I have fedora 6 running, but it just finished installing. Haven't done..much else. Over the week I bought A new computer(Fry's Electronics had a sale) here some working specs

Intel 915 processor(duel core, not the core duo, 4300 might of been a better buy, but you cant go wrong only spending 78 dollars on a processor and motherboard combo, unless you have vendettas against ECS motherboards[sometimes..I do] or you can spend 50 more on the core duo 4300 with the same board)
PT890T-a While this board horrible, It can be changed later whenever..I get around to that.
1 gig of ram I had to purchase DDR2 for the motherboard, its Kingston if you wanted to know the brand, for this board. I still carry a whole lot of just DDR memory since my main(gaming) system is a AMD Athlon 3500.
Host OS is Windows XP Pro.
Oh yea, 20 gigs is dedicated to fedora virtually.

This is also an upgrade from an Intel 631 system of the nearly same specs. Minus DDR2.

The original plan of using an older athlon 2400, is obviously out of the question due to space reasons( I live in a 540 sq ft apartment, and my wife says I am only allowed 3 computers running, at least she said in humor, but I'm trying to keep that wish)
and lack of a case currently, since its been really humid and I haven't finish the paint job. The older Intel 631, will be used probably for the Linux office at this point in time.

death of a computer

Woops, due to some playing around on the computer, I ended up with a non-booting system. Spending 3 days on it was a killer getting things back in order. I will do some posting here in a day or two once Im up to date on everything. Till then...