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At 09:49 2010-03-07, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Does anyone running linux really
need new hardware anymore? It must be a real niche app if you're
running linux on the desktop and needing more speed than hardware from 5+
years ago. Maybe I could see a memory upgrade to a meg or two...but
that's it. </blockquote>< snip ><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">So what gives? Why
does someone running linux in a reasonably normal environment need to
upgrade his hardware at any point between 2005 and
2015?</blockquote><br>
At the same time as this topic came up in this forum, a similar topic
came up in a hardware design forum I follow. <br>
Excerpt of various posts in this forum follow: <br>
As for the OS, my suggestion would be to use 64 bit Fedora 12....<br>
The iCore7 has hardware virtualization support and Fedora 12 comes with
KVM built in so you can run multiple VMs painlessly. ....<br>
In absolute sense i7-960 (or i7-975 for rich kids among us) should be
faster. And, of course, in multi-user environment core-i7<br>
(or, for bigger shops, Xeon-55xx) wins by very wide margin.
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As with the posts about gamers and video processing, the user's
application needs drive the need for increased capabilities in the
PC.<br>
While admittedly not mainstream, these apps should not necessarily be
looked at as "niche apps".<br>
Thanks<br>
John Johnson<br>
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