http://www.danielhardy.com I speak usability & developer to make amazing user experiences. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:27:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.danielhardy.com/blog/ecs-6100sm-m-and-ubuntu-are-friends/ http://www.danielhardy.com/blog/ecs-6100sm-m-and-ubuntu-are-friends/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:39:00 +0000 Daniel Hardy http://www.danielhardy.com/blog/?p=48 Yesterday my wife’s computer finally croaked. We decided that the best option was to build a desktop replacement form scratch. This can be a nerve racking experience as a Linux user because you never know how well every items will work with your distro of choice. I ended up with an ECS 6100SM-M, AMD BE2300 (45watt) processor, 2GB of OZC PC6400 RAM and a Pioneer DVD/R/RW. None of these components are amazing but they all work perfectly with Ubuntu 7.10 and the computer is surprisingly fast. My boot time out of the gate was a brisk 28 seconds and I haven’t even began to tweak the system to improve this time.

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