On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:09:10 +1100
Robert Leftwich
I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, Athlon dual core 4800+ with 4GB ram + 4 SATA2 drives I need to setup as a server (basically postgres + apache/lighttpd). Ideally the 4 drives would be RAID (right now anything with redundancy would be acceptable).
I've installed 10.0 on a similar system, a MSI K8N SLI Platinium, 4 GB RAM (some 3.5 GB recognized by the updated (not recently) BIOS), AMD X2 4600+, two SATA drives in SuSE software raid (lots of raid opportunities on the mobo itself but so far I've used none - I should I guess, but some say that the Nvdia raid is not that good), one IDE from which the system boots, GeForce 6600 video, Creative on-board 24 bit sound. Two ethernet ports. Until a recent YaST online update, there was a problem with the system recognizing the on-board network adapters in a proper manner. But now it's OK. So far, I've never been able to make the sound work with the connected 5.1 speakers. Only one speaker works, plus the bass speaker. Not that I spend a lot of time try to make it work, mind you. I generally don't like to try to fix the system but from time to time I get one of those crazes when I really want to ditch into a problem and solve it. I much prefer doing what I have/want to do instead of fixing things. In that respect I'm satisfied. The system runs X86_64 smp and it's fast all right. I could not configure SuSE 10.0 to have a 1600x1200 resolution on the 21.3" TFT. Previous install, SuSE 9.3, had no problem with this. Also, the fonts are skinny and not as nice as on 9.3. I'd like to fix that one of these days, but that does not prevent me from working. I run Apache locally for fun and experiments, set up via the YaST setup, and there are no problems so far. All in all, it's all right but since I come from a background where I used to run Linux systems I built myself (at home and at work) I tend to think that I'd get better quality with an homebrewed system... If I had the time to build a 32/64-bit dual libs version of it. Cheers.