Thread: Converting to Linux

Yeh, I'm going to have to make the PC set-up a little more expensive with an Nvidia card and a compatable sound card..As I was planning to go with integration on both parts...But I've been told off for thinking that would work - Which makes sense, because it's hard to keep up with all these integrated graphics cards I suppose..Although sound I would of thought would of been able to jump through a loophole.

Thanks for the help guys, and a big thank you for those links - They shall prove VERY useful and hopefully will prevent me from suffering from unsupported hardware woes!

I also decided to go for an AMD Athlon 64 2800+, as I found one that's at a decent price in a computer shop near mine...$80 not bad eh! (I also had to change the motherboard and RAM type round though, which wasn't a costly swap).

Ok, thanks again guys!

One simple word

Gentoo

And if you need help with gentoo
(You will need help in the install process, but its WELL worth it)

Gentoo Forums

And...... Sixty-Four bit!!!!! I'm on it right now!

Oh wow, I've never heard of this distribution! AND 64 bit?! This makes development a load more interesting!

I'm going to do some reading on it first of course.

(Also, I will be buying the new PC the end of this month...My bank decided I owed them money....Bastards.)

Originally Posted by Twigstar

Oh wow, I've never heard of this distribution! AND 64 bit?!

Most, if not all, distributions are going to be 64-bit since the Linux kernel includes that support. All you have to do to get it is to compile the kernel with support for it.