Hardware :: Building An Affordable Desktop?
Jan 5, 2010
I'm starting the process of purchasing parts for a desktop. My target price range is $300-$400. I want to be able to comfortably run a modern linux-based operating system, but do not necessarily need an advanced system. It will be used for internet (including videos on hulu.com), office related tasks, and some light editing of standard definition mpeg4 video. I'd like some room to potentially do upgrades and updates in the future. I'm looking for any kind of suggestions or advice that might be helpful, because I've never done anything like this before.
Here are the parts and approximate prices that I've found so far, shopping primarily on pricegrabber.com. Again, feel free to comment on anything. Intel DG41TY motherboard - $70 (X4500 G
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Oct 1, 2010
I am having trouble building vim with gui from source on Fedora 13. I am using
Code:
./configure --enable-gui=auto --with-features=huge --prefix=$HOME/myvim
but I get
Quote:
checking for X... (cached) no
checking if X11 header files can be found... no
checking --enable-gui argument... no GUI support.
I have installed GTK and X11 dev packages. What's missing?
[URL]
I'm building from source because the packaged Vim doesn't have all the features I want.
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Nov 26, 2010
I have been meaning to do this for awhile. I have a relatively decent machine currently running FreeNAS, a BSD based NAS system. It works great as a NAS box, but now I want it to do more. I want it to act as a file server/NAS, also as a router for my home network, so obviously I will add a second ethernet port as well as wireless "N" capability. As a router, I want to have fine control over my home computers. And, I have a multiple camera security setup, using Motion, that I want to run on this machine 24/7. I know Motion doesn't take a huge amount of horsepower, since I am currently running it on an inexpensive laptop running Squeeze.
What I would like advice on is how some other people on this forum would accomplish this. FreeNAS works great for what it was designed for, as well as IPCop, but neither will do all that I want, so I plan to run Debian on it, most likely Squeeze, as it will soon be Stable.
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Jan 14, 2010
I am in the process of building some packages with the Intel compiler (icc) and was wondering how to make it the default compiler when using rpmbuild.
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Jun 27, 2010
I am returning to Ubuntu as my primary OS. For this, I am building a new system (I have a beast of a Windows desktop, but retiring that as an HTPC and building a new desktop). Will be moving some items from the Windows desktop like the speakers, keyboard/mouse, monitors, etc, that will not serve with the HTPC configuration. Basically, this is what I am building (amost identical to my current Windows machine, except it's a Core2Quad and has 12GB of RAM):
i7-860
P55 chipset motherboard
8GB of RAM
system/boot volume volume 2x64GB 2nd gen 64GB SSDs in RAID0 (have hardware garbage collection so will run find in RAID)
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Video Card: with 10.04, should I go with ATI or nVidia for a card? Am running triple monitors, and will be gaming using Cross-Games and Cedega. Which drivers between the two manufacturers is performing the best and would be best for gaming/multiple monitors.
RAID Card: The 2320 says it has native support in the 2.6.25 kernel. I get good speeds (500-600 MB/sec on both the SSDs and the RAID5) and no troubles with it on the Win Desktop. Should I have any issues with it under 10.04 or would there be a suggestion in the <$350 price range to replace it with? Or, would running the ICH10R off the motherboard work with the alternate CD?
SSD Setup: What partitions would be best to keep off the SSD volume and on the RAID5? I know /tmp, /home, /var, and /swap should be kept off the SSDs to reduce the excessive writes. Any other suggestions? With a 128GB system/boot volume, what would you do for partition sizes there?
Sound Card: Is the Omega supported under 10.04? Or another suggestion for good 7.1 surround sound?
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Nov 3, 2010
I run a small business and are right now in the need of a telephone solution to run on my Ubuntu server. Obviously there's some alternatives out there that seems really extensive, maybe too extensive, so if there's anyone here that would like to share their experiences and thoughts in this area
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Sep 24, 2010
I am going to buy new computer, will assemble it myself. I have searched extensively this forum and finally at least decided on PSU, Corsair VX450 which is available in India also. I want to do these 3 things on my new computer:
Browse internet.
Do Programming (C, Lisp, Emacs) on Arch/Debian Linux.
Play 1080p/720p HD/Blu-Ray videos with 6000kbps bitrate.
No games and no Windows
I already have Samsung SyncMaster 2243LNX monitor and a SONY DVD-ROM. Now I need to decide on other components like CPU, MOBO, Case, HDD. Searching forums make me convince on WD HDD and Gigabyte MOBO. Regarding CPU I am still confused on AMD vs Intel. I have understood that I don't need 4-Cores, 2 core will suffice my needs.
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Jul 28, 2010
Do I undersatnd correct? If you build LAN with several Linux PCs and no DHCP server, you will need to configure every computer yourself. But if you add one more PC to this LAN which is DHCP server, all you need is to configure this DHCP server and write in config files of other computers to use DHCP, network will work without configuring other computers?
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May 15, 2011
I am trying to figure out the best server configuration for the following:Low power (I want to plug the server in and forget about it)High redundancy of data (I don't want to loose my music and documents!)The ability to stream music + movies to laptop (maybe subsonic or Jinzora)VPN server with IPsec or OpenVPN NAS $800 budget 2TB with ability to add more drives :Unix Server with software RAID (maybe RAID6)
VPN setup on virtual OS via VirtualBox
NAS setup on virtual OS via VirtualBox
My Questions:What would be the best raid configuration if I wanted at least 2TB of data and the ability to add more disks when the space begins to add up?What would be the best OS to use for setting up a software RAID (is a FakeRAID a better solution)?Does it make more sense to separate the VPN and NAS with different OS's?My goal will be to access my data from any computer from anywhere but mostly just my Laptop from work.
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Nov 13, 2010
I currently have an academic license of red hat enterprise linux Desktop/Workstation and red hat enterprise linux server. For those who don't know this will get me updates but no official support (the desktop/workstation costs 30 dollars and the server costs 80 dollars). Anywho i am trying to get wine to work but after strugglign with many dependency issues i tried to build it manually but it keeps telling me to install the 32 bit development libraries. how to do this (i am currently using fedora 14 having identical issues) and i cant get either crossover games to work with 3d games nor can i get wine to play any 3D related games (does regular windows programs just fine)
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Sep 14, 2010
I would request for a step by step procedure for building a slackware 13 guest OS in xenserver 5.6
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Nov 20, 2009
I'm trying to build boost on a 64-bit CentOS 5.4 install. I have Python 2.6.4 built and installed at /opt/Python_2.6.4/, and I've appended the user-config.jam file with:
using python : 2.6 : /opt/Python_2.6.4/python : /opt/Python_2.6.4/Include : /opt/Python_2.6.4/Lib ;
The standard system Python is 2.4.1 but the tools I'm using require 2.6, so I've built this version and installed it independently of the system version 2.4.1 to avoid any conflicts.
As I'm sure you've already imagined, I get the error:
LONG_BIT definition appears wrong for platform (bad gcc/glibc config?)
I see that this is a long standing bug, but I have yet to find a fix. I've tried various CCFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, etc. to push for a 64-bit compile or a 32-bit compile (-m64 or -m32).
The offending file is pyport.h - is there a 64-bit friendly version that I don't know about?
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Jun 28, 2011
its been years since I've compile anything so at a loss at what to do next. Emerald keeps giving me errors during "make": I've installed all deps listed here: [URL]
This is what I end up with:
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/qwe/emerald'
Making all in libengine
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/qwe/emerald/libengine'
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Oct 10, 2009
I am trying to build a system that will run both KDE and GNOME. I currently have just GNOME installed. So I need to install KDE and KDM (which I know how to do). The thing that I don't know how to do is make it default to KDM when it boots rather than GDM. Also I need a way to get rid of the GNOME apps in the menus in KDE and the KDE apps in the menus in GNOME. Also, this system in running Fedora 11 x86_64
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Dec 22, 2009
I am trying to compile a kernel (so that the USBIP module gets built, I've enabled it via menuconfig) in the following directory:
Is this src tree "intended" to be rebuilt?
I'm trying to compile an "EXPERIMENTAL" module (w/in the tree already) USBIP so this seems to be my ONLY recourse. I do not have the ability to connect the machine to the net, nor bring in things like non-professionally burned CD's nor flash drives...
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Sep 4, 2010
Is there any launchpad ([URL] for debian) like service for building and hosting rpm?
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Feb 16, 2011
I'm trying to build the yabause emulator on fedora. The GTK port is available in the repos, but I'm wanting the QT port as it will support more than one joypad. I'm using Fedora 14 x86_64 Yabause source is available here: [URL] I'm following the instructions in README.QT in the yabause library but Ihit an error saying that I'm missing libgtkglext. However I have this library in /usr/lib64/
Output is as follows
[mythtv@media yabause-0.9.10]$ ls -la /usr/lib*/*libgtkglext*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 28 Feb 16 09:02 /usr/lib64/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0 -> libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 12312 Jul 26 2009 /usr/lib64/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0.0.0
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How do I get the script to look in the right place for the library?
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Jul 10, 2011
I am trying to build linux kernel I am getting out of space after a while. I unpacked it in /usr/src directory. It seems I have plenty of space. How much space does it need to compile & build kernel. I am using VirtualBox.
root@vinay-VirtualBox:/usr/src/linux-2.6.39.3# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 6.9G 3.2G 3.4G 49% /
none 669M 640K 668M 1% /dev
none 675M 24K 675M 1% /dev/shm
none 675M 96K 675M 1% /var/run
none 675M 0 675M 0% /var/lock
/dev/sr0 39M 39M 0 100% /media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.0.10_72479
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Jan 13, 2010
I am building new AMD PC and done lot of research on motherboards, now I am getting confused with the two motherboards, ASUS and Gigabyte..I am searching for a board with no integrated VGA and no SLI with 5.1 audio, good price.I heard that some motherboards of Gigabyte caught fire.
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Jun 8, 2010
I want to be able to create a Dialog (similar to the one for Winetricks, run it without parameters to see it) with a checklist that tells my script to go out and download whatever scripts of mine I've selected. I also wish to make a GUI for some of my more complex scripts, such as my Backup script so I can have a nice looking menu instead of a text based one.Does anybody know a good place to learn how to do this, with lots of explanations and breakdowns of each part of the script?
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May 18, 2010
I'm trying to port binutils to a new architecture. I have changed and created necessary files for this. The configure commad run succusfuly. but when I tried to run make I find probems. the error msg is:
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Jul 19, 2010
I was using amarok fine with 10.04, upgraded to 10.10 alpha, still worked fine. Decided alpha had a few bugs I didn't like so I completely removed it, installed 10.04 from scratch again (I have two partitions, / and /home, only formatted /). Now I can't get amarok to build for me at all. It plays mp3's no problem but when I try to build my collection it pretends to (takes a few minutes but goes relatively fast compared to what it should take to build) then shows 0 songs. I've already tried deleting amarok inside of /home/user/.kde/share/apps/amarok
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Mar 20, 2011
My clearly outdated Linux course I'M using is telling me that the directory structure for building RPMs is in /usr/src/redhat, but on my redhat system, there is only /usr/src/ > debug & > kernels, folders.
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Jun 5, 2011
I have been trying to build the HP Qlogic Netxen, nx_nic, driver on Ferdora13 kernel 2.6.33 but facing with "missing kernel-devel package" errors. As per the instructions in the driver spec, when i try to do rpm build, i get this error. I tried the rpm build installing kernel-devel-i686 pkg but it only shoots back with
error: Failed build dependencies:
kernel-devel-i586 = package is needed by hp-nx_nic-4.0.544-2.src
But when I installed kernel-devel-i586 pkg for kernel 2.6.30 the rpm build continued beyond this error point only to give some other RPM build error atleast to say there was no missing kernel-devel pkg error. Has anybody come across any such error with any other driver? or nx_nic in specific? Does this error mean kernel-devel-i586 a MUST for this driver? As far as I know there is no -i586 pkg for kernel 2.6.33 when i searched in kernel-devel repository! I am not sure, if this forum is right place for posting this question. If not, pls re-direct me to the right one.
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Jan 30, 2011
I've decided to build a new system. I been doing a lot of compatibility searches with little luck. I don't have a bunch of money to put into it but here is what I've been looking at. I have been very happy with Ubuntu 10.04 lts Lucid 32-bit version and thought I would install the 64-bit version on this. I would like your input on this system. Are there any compatibility problems here?
ASUS M4A785-M AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Model #:M4A785-M
Item #:N82E16813131595
XFX PVT94GYAJG GeForce 9400 GT 512MB 64-bit DDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
Model#: PVT94GYAJG
Item #:N82E16814150488
AMD Athlon II X4 640 Propus 3.0GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor ADX640WFGMBOX
Model #:ADX640WFGMBOX
Item #:N82E16819103871
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 Desktop Memory Model KHX8500D2K2/4G
Model #:KHX8500D2K2/4G
Item #:N82E16820104073
Along with this I have 1-Sata 500G and a 1-Sata 250G hard drives that will be installed.
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Mar 23, 2011
is it possible to build gnome 3 on squeeze? if yes, how do i do it?
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Jul 30, 2010
I am currently working on Debian based Operating System, and my objective is to make a live CD.
I ve followed the specified steps to buid a live CD, and finally I ve made an .iso file too.
Now,I am facing some issues to execute that .iso on Qemu(Virtual Interface),those are:
1. While builing it into an .iso,I skipped the md5sum step, is that mandatory to be built for making a live CD?
And when I am trying to make an MD5SUM using the following command, Its giving me the following error:
Kindly specify me, where exeactly the error in the command for creating the md5sum?
2. While executing the .iso file in Qemu using the following command :
And the I am able to watch the Operating System booting initialization and then when I select the option as "Install as Live CD" Its giving me the following error:
I request who ever reads this thread, please send me some kind of a response.I'll be thankful to them.
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Mar 28, 2010
I am trying to build a gcc 4.4.3 cross-compiler. I downloaded the gcc 4.4.3 release, uncompressed it, made a new directory called gccbuild and cd'd there. I have already installed gmp, mpfr, and mpc in /usr/local. These are the commands I used:
Code:
configure --target=arm-linux --enable-languages=c --with-gmp=/usr/local --with-mpfr=/usr/local --with-mpc=/usr/local
make
However, the build fails with
Code:
checking for arm-linux-gcc... /home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/bin/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/include -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/sys-include
checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/home/steven/gccbuild/arm-linux/libgcc':
configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile .....
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Nov 2, 2010
I tried to build linux-2.6.36 but I got this error message
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I looked into gcc-version.sh but the problem is located somewhere else I thought at first one of the files might have been corrupted and I downloaded the archive again.
I must also say that this happened in different versions of slackware (the distro I use): 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1
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Mar 10, 2010
I'm building one of the backblaze storage pods:
blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
I have followed the specs they give exactly and i have almost completed it but I am stuck trying to mount the raids. There are 3 RAID6 and i recieve the same error for each one
Code:
mount /dev/md0 /mnt/raid0
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
This is what i have done(ill just show one since they are identical except for which drives make the raid of course)
Code:
mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90
Creation Time : Thu Mar 4 14:50:11 2010
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