Re: What to buy?
Russell Coker via linux-aus <[email protected]>
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On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 18:19:35 AEST James Cameron via linux-aus wrote: > An old faithful home system died. Power supply. Lab DNS, DHCP, > firewall, and a DVB-T recorder. So sad, but hey, 11 years was good. > > What is a reasonable replacement these days? Requirements; > > - will run Linux, customer installed, Problemmatic hardware with Linux is generally only new video cards, cheap USB devices, and generally other new/cheap things. Any modern AMD64 system will run Linux and if it has PCI slots will take the existing hardware. > - quiet; on a remote farm there's no traffic noise to mask fans, Does the previous system have hard drives or SSDs? If you replace a system with hard drives with a system that has SSDs then making it suitably quiet shouldn't be difficult. > - two ethernet ports, Everything has one Ethernet port on the motherboard and PCI and PCIe Ethernet devices are cheap. > - a PCI slot for an old DVB-T card, Leadtek WinFast DTV1000 T, cx2388x > kernel module ... or advice on a replacement four-channel receiver. I suggest not replacing that card, that would just add more work for yourself. Get an older system with both PCI and PCIe slots and it will be fine. A system that has PCI slots will probably be about 11 years old, so you will probably have about the same speed of system as you previously had if the previous was bought new. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to linux-aus-unsubscribe-cunTk1MwBs8iFSDQTTA3OBCuuivNXqWP@public.gmane.org