[Cialug] Small and quiet Linux box suggestions

[David Champion]

The modern Intel video chipsets are good enough for 2D / Desktop stuff, and
actually OK for light 3D work.

-dc


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu
> wrote:

> On 2014-04-23 at 10:40:30 David Champion wrote:
> > I've got one of the Asus / Atom mini PC's. It's OK but the CPU is just
> > too slow for me.
> > I think any of the Shuttle / Asus / Intel mini PC's with a Core i5 or
> > better would work well for you.
> > -dc
>
> This sounds like a good possibility for something that is small and
> quiet, but still has good performance when needed:
>
>
> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/a-turbo-charged-quad-core-mini-desktop-gigabytes-brix-pro-reviewed/
>
> It has "Intel Iris Pro 5200" graphics. I don't know what graphics are
> like today, but last time i checked, Intel was slow but compatible (open
> source drivers!), nVidia was fast but required proprietary drivers, and
> ATI was fast but the proprietary drivers were unstable. That was at
> least 5-6 years ago though; far enough in the past that ATI wasn't yet
> called AMD. Does Intel still have open source drivers? My current
> machine has an nVidia card, and while i've not had any problems with it,
> i would be quite happy if i could get back to a fully open-source system
> again.
>
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