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Survey, Who built your computer?

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doublefresh:
I'm curious to know what % of Linux users build their own machines. So please let me know if your computer was store bought from Dell, Gateway etc... or if you built it yourself.

While we are at it why not list your system specs.

I'll start.

I've been building my own for 5 years. I get most of my parts from www.pricewatch.com

At the moment I've got 6 computers at my desk all running on one 19" monitor with a KVM switch. I use a LinkSys DSL Router to share my internet connection.

My slowest machine is an old Celeron 300A Overclocked to 450 and my fastest is a Dual PII 500 server with a raid 5 SCSI setup.

I run one machine as a MP3 server for the rest of the house and it's plugged into an Onkyo stereo in my bedroom and a sony stereo in the living room.

Your turn...

CaptainCool:
Right now I'm running a P3 1GHZ Compaq pc that came with windows installed, but now has Linux on it.
I have 2 other pc's one is a cyrix 300 and a Amd K6-2 at 450 MHZ.In a couple months I'll be building a new P4 Box.

trc3:

slave:
I built my computer

voidmain:
I have around 12 machines, 8 of which are still in operation, a few on an Apex KVM (haven't thrown out the old 486s yet). The slowest one still in operation is a P100 that I built several years ago and has been serving as my Gateway/Proxy/Firewall for about the last 3 years or more (was using dialup and MASQ until I got my cable modem a couple of years ago).

But I started building my own machines around 1988. Right now my fastest one is an Athlon 1600 w/512MB in my kitchen as the main family desktop. Also have a couple of K6-2 450Mhz. I do have 3 Dells (2 Latitude laptops and one Dimension P90 acting as an PDC/Wins/DHCP/DNS server, whoops, guess that's my slowest one still in operation). Most of my machines are down stairs in my spare family room that I use as my hobby room, I have my house wired up so I can plug a laptop in just about anywhere.

Oh and that's not counting my servers I have in other locations. Ranging from Compaq to Dell to Penguin Computing rack servers.

[ November 17, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

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