My Linux Journal Day 26
January 27th, 2008 by George
I was looking at replacing my current linux machine with a hopefully more powerful one, and after loading a Linux distro onto it I found it had a 650MHz CPU with only 128MB of RAM. Needless to say I was disappointed. According to a badge on its case it was built by Quest, or the tower case is by Quest. I really don’t know much about it besides I’m taking its 16GB drive to use as a scratch drive for Photoshop on my work machine and the rest is going into the trash can.
After using the Linux Hardware Lister tool on the other one, I ran it on my current Linux machine, a Pavilion 8766C.
To run Linux Hardware Lister, open a console and type:
sudo lshw
I was glad to see I had upgraded the RAM significantly, so all in all this 900 MHz P3 with 128MB of RAM, onboard video, onboard sound (Rockwell Chameleon combo card) has been upgraded with a total of 512MB of RAM, a 128MB GeForce4 MX4000 video card and a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Ensoniq ES1371 sound card.
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