[MLUG - DISCUSSION] my son wants to build a pimped up PC...

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Running Linux, of course.

You just knew this was going to happen at some point, so it's not a
major surprise. He has enough money squirreled away to build a
low-endish system, so I might fork over for a little bit of it.

Small, quiet, and energy-efficient would be nice. I looked into mini-
and micro-itx stuff, but it looks like that's not the cheapest way to
start (although it's got the other qualifications down). Not being
into the stock PC hardware thing very much at this point, I'm not
exactly sure where to start looking for an appropriate mobo/processor
combination, especially given that I need everything supported by a
non-bleeding-edge kernel.

I know some of the micro systems have built-in graphics, but I am
guessing we'll want something beefy enough to support something like
Beryl in style. Performance otherwise doesn't need to be phenomenal;
we're going to stick 1 GB in it on general principal, so everything
will be cached most of the time. :-)

The case has to be super-cool, of course.If we went micro-itx, it
would probably end up being one of those bizarre custom enclosure
things.

Distribution is almost certainly going to be Ubuntu until he knows
enough to change to something else.

Any and all pointers are welcome. Milo is actually only 11 years old,
but I guess it's fair to call him a bit precocious. He proudly wears
black socks to gym, so you would have to call him a geek. :-)

jking

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