I just received my guick. PC last night and although I am not an Ubuntu user, I was quite surprised with the pc. Out of the box, little is installed. Simply login as root, and away you go. The pc handled package management (updates and new package installs) while I surfed the web, and added Plane and apache at the same time. The cpu ran at about 35-50%. I did not notice any overheating or a super hot heatsink. The software allows for cluster management which is why I bought this box. I intend to install 4 pentium4 motherboards in the same box as nodes, and allow the via board to play the role as head node. It does run enlightenment which was surprisingly fast. I did adjust some video refresh rates, but after I get everything installed I will run a gui. I have been using SuSE (yeah I know) for many years, and for the money this is a great deal. Going to use it as a webserver only, so I will update later. Should handle just about anything at this point. I will experiment with other OS's and such when I receive box #2.
Yet they always fail to mention that "ALL" of the Linux holes are 100% patched quickly, the majority are non-critical, and they are not all related to the OS, unlike the MSFT patches that they seperate into OS, application, but wait isn't IE a part of thier OS? According to them it is! Down with MSFT, pezzo de merda!
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I just received my guick. PC last night and although I am not an Ubuntu user, I was quite surprised with the pc. Out of the box, little is installed. Simply login as root, and away you go. The pc handled package management (updates and new package installs) while I surfed the web, and added Plane and apache at the same time. The cpu ran at about 35-50%. I did not notice any overheating or a super hot heatsink. The software allows for cluster management which is why I bought this box. I intend to install 4 pentium4 motherboards in the same box as nodes, and allow the via board to play the role as head node. It does run enlightenment which was surprisingly fast. I did adjust some video refresh rates, but after I get everything installed I will run a gui. I have been using SuSE (yeah I know) for many years, and for the money this is a great deal. Going to use it as a webserver only, so I will update later. Should handle just about anything at this point. I will experiment with other OS's and such when I receive box #2.
Yet they always fail to mention that "ALL" of the Linux holes are 100% patched quickly, the majority are non-critical, and they are not all related to the OS, unlike the MSFT patches that they seperate into OS, application, but wait isn't IE a part of thier OS? According to them it is! Down with MSFT, pezzo de merda!