[Tfug] Xeon CPUs

[Louis Taber]

No problems with my Dell T110 with a Xeon processor.

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 2:04 PM, John Hubbard <ender8282 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On October 3, 2014 12:33:55 PM MST, Steve B <steveb7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking to replace my old CoreDuo machine since there are some
>> software apps I am not able to run because of features lacking with this
>> CPU (VMWare and some that run but several features are disabled because the
>> CPU lacks the VT-x extensions).
>>
>> I've found several Dell and HP Xeon based machines of CL and eBay that
>> are within my budget. A quick Google search says Linux should run just fine
>> on these, most problems were video related (ie nVidia and/or ATI).
>>
>> Is anyone on the list running Linux on a Xeon machine as a desktop OS,
>> not as a server? If so any comments or advice?
>>
>> Steve
>>
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> I just recently picked up a Haswell Xeon E3 for my file server/media
> center. It is running Kubuntu 14.04 just fine. I had a little hokeyness
> with the NIC but I think that's just network manager (the gift that keeps
> on giving).
> --
> - john
> From a mobile device.
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