Which Distro is a best fit for my Comps full potential

Shadowmeph · 09-05-2008, 03:30 PM

I have decided to change distros from Ubuntu because of a problem I posted herehttp://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...re-ram-667378/ So I am looking for a 64 bit distro that I will be able to have accelerated drivers( fglrx drivers) with my 4 gb's of ram at this time it appears that Ubuntu Hardy doesn't support this which was a dissapointment after I bought the extra ram lol.

anyways

these are my specs

Code:

 description: Desktop Computer/mother board

    product:GA-P35-DS3L
    vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E8400  @ 3.00GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU
          slot: Socket 775
          size: 3GHz
          capacity: 4GHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 333MHz

-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 1b
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 4GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
             physical id: 0
             slot: A0
             size: 1GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 800MHz (1.2ns)
all matching ram in all four slots

-multimedia
                   description: Multimedia audio controller
                   product: CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]
                   vendor: C-Media Electronics Inc
                   physical id: 4
                   bus info: pci@0000:04:04.0
                   version: 00
                   width: 32 bits
                   clock: 33MHz

description: VGA compatible controller
                product: Radeon HD 3870 ICEQ3
                vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: 00
                width: 64 bits

also have a tv card ( WinTV HVR-1600) but I am not really worried about it because I doubt that it is Linux compatable.

Any suggestions would help me greatly and be appreciated

MS3FGX · 09-05-2008, 09:52 PM

You probably haven't gotten any responses yet as this is actually the wrong forum for this sort of question. The Embedded forum is for things like routers and set-top boxes; in other words, not general purpose computers.

At any rate, in terms of pure performance I would probably chose Gentoo. Build as much as you feel comfortable with from source with appropriate CPU-specific optimizations and you should be good.

rickh · 09-05-2008, 11:04 PM

They're all equally good, including Ubuntu. It all depends on your knowledge of how to deal with problems. Suggesting that one distro is "superior" is an insult to all the others.

jtshaw · 09-08-2008, 01:37 PM

Moved: This thread is more suitable in Linux - Distributions and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.