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Linux Life Episode 61

Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to my on going quest in the world of Linux.

Well a lot has happened since my last episode. The W3550 Xeon decide to fail on me as The PSU decided to give up the ghost with no warning or real errors. All I know is it refused to start a few times. Now I had been having problems with the AMD R9 270X graphics card so I swapped it out with a Nvidia 630 GT.

The 630GT was from the i7 desktop which I swapped out with the Nvidia 1050 which is still in there currently and working well. However when I switched it into the Xeon it worked upon initial installation then the Xeon started to fail upon start up but lights would come on. After two further attempted start ups it the refused to do anything whatsoever.

So unfortunately I don’t have a replacement power supply to hand as the Xeon requires a 750w PSU to work efficiently. The only one I have to had is a 450w one on hand which would not allow the Xeon to start. So the Xeon at the moment is on the shelf until I can source a new one at a reasonable price.

So I got another machine up and running. The Machine is an Intel G540 Celeron board I had lying about in an Acer case. It’s not an Acer system I just reused the case to install the G540 which is sitting on a Gigabyte H61M-S2PV motherboard.

I also installed the Nvidia 630GT as I had it to hand from the Xeon. I also used the 240GB V Series SSD from the Xeon as it was available. So once again I have a working system. Now the Intel G540 Celeron for those who don’t keep chip specs to hand is a Sandy Bridge dual core dual threaded machine so it is never going to be a speed demon however it is running at 2.50 GHz which is not bad.

I have also installed 8Gb of DDR3 RAM from the Xeon so although it’s ECC ram the machine doesn’t worry about that and is running perfectly fine.

So I naturally went to install Namib Linux and it installed fine initially but after its first update broke and pamac would not update any more. I managed to get pamac back after a bit of playing with terminal commands but it still wouldn’t synchronize the databases. More finagling later involving pulling down the required files from the AUR to my phone then transferring them using a program called Sweech via Wi-Fi. I got Pamac back to the tray

Restarted but still no synchronising databases. Updated keyrings and mirrorlists but still no avail. In the end I gave up as no matter what I did it would not update. Not happy.

The crazy thing is the i7 desktop is still running Namib Linux and I did exactly what I did regarding the Xeon and it works absolutely fine so I am confused. There must be a step on the i7 I did which I have completely forgotten, who knows one day I may remember. So Namib is out of the loop also at the moment.

So I decided since this is not a regularly used machine more of a test bed I remember quite a few episodes I liked the look of Solus 4 at the time. Well it just happened a few days before I typed this article Solus announced the update to Solus 4.1, new and improved and several bug fixes. So I downloaded the ISO on the i7 transferred it to USB using Etcher and installed it on the newly restored G540.

It installed fine and I even managed to install the Nvidia drivers without a problem and it worked fine. I used their software Centre which is based on the Ubuntu one to install my usual software however I came unstuck with the dock I use.

Now I use Cairo Dock. I use it because you can move its offset to move it up and down off the edge of the desktop so you can clear the main dock. Which you can’t do with Docky or Plank.

It’s not in their store. I look on Solus’ website. Many have requested it but they have not got it working. So i couldn’t use it. I tried Plank for about half a day before remembering why it annoyed me.

Another program I use is I-Nex to check the video driver it’s similar to CPU-Z which is used on Windows and Mac. Guess what its not in the store database either but CPU-X was.

However as good as Solus is their store is missing so many things and because they use their own package manager extension of eopkg there is no converter like Debtap which Arch uses to convert Debian files to allow them to install. So it makes life very awkward if you want specific software.

I’m sure someone is going to tell me of such a convertor and what it is called and I am going to feel kind of stupid, but I could not find it or any clue to such.

So I decide against Solus. In time I may go back should they update such but for now like every time I have tried Solus ,it is still in development and needs to catch up.

Maybe in about 2 years I may try again. So now I am current running Ubuntu Studio 19.10 it works OK. I have had to add a few PPAs to get certain programs but it has been reasonably easy to get most running.

However one thing that does annoy me is having to search the appropriate apt-get package name for certain things because it isn’t always what you think it would be.

Once again I was trying to install I-Nex. I added the PPA and sudo apt update, sudo apt-get install I-Nex. It failed could not get libcpuid version 14 or higher. So I found the deb file installed it and I-Nex still wouldn’t install.

Luckily CPU-X would install so I removed the I-Nex PPA aned installed the CPU-X one and it worked first time. Such an annoyance that even if you install the info even from the alleged website of an app. It isn’t always true.

That is one thing I will say about Arch if it changes someone updates the wiki immediately and tells you the new name or how to sort it. Not the case it seems with Ubuntu.

However after all that Ubuntu Studio is still on the G540. I have managed to get Steam, working, however because the 630GT doesn’t have Shaders 4.0 as it’s the Fermi model of the card not the Pascal which was produced later, I know I can’t use Lutris and Vulkan as it will not work sufficiently.

However it will play games just not high end ones which I can live with. So that brings us up-to date. How long it will remain with Ubuntu Studio 19.10 I don’t know. However I have got all the programs I want at the moment and it does work if albeit slower than the Xeon.

Have you any Linux distributions you would like me to examine... Zorin OS, MX Linux, Fedora Silverblue, Mint 19.3, Netrunner, the list goes on. If so give me a message at [email protected] with your suggestions.

OK well I think that’s enough for this episode...so until next time, take care.

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Ars Technica framework manage: Bargain Box April 2012 Prepared to construct your own processing rig? We'll help you do it on the cheap.

The Bargain Box (once in the past the Ultimate Budget Box) is the most essential box we cover in the System Guides. As the most minimal value enclose the aides, it does not have the sex interest of its flashier kin, and it has a large group of rivalry today. Before it was simply OEM pre-builts, then it was netbooks, now it's tablets.

Still, there is by all accounts a place for an essential desktop framework. These live on in quality in the workplace, where most by far of representatives read email, crunch spreadsheets, and stream preparing recordings. At home, boxes like this are a helpful place to reserve every one of the photos from the family excursion, and a pleasant place to hold media that won't fit on the (generally) constrained capacity of the normal tablet or mobile phone. Tucked in the home office, or possibly the center of a low-spending plan HTPC; many still have a genuine requirement for a desktop.

There's no affectation of different needs in the Bargain Box. It gets a sensible measure of capacity in spite of its ease, and there's no endeavor at 3D capacity outside of the essential level of execution found in the incorporated design (IGP). It's there to do the essential undertakings with least complain.

Why not Dell?

For the least cost desktop conceivable: truly, purchasing an OEM box bodes well.

Huge OEMs like Dell, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo, and others all get volume rebates and economies of scale that the individual manufacturer or significantly littler OEMs can't coordinate. This holds especially valid with programming. Paying for the OS is a major piece of progress in frameworks like these, and something that will altogether influence any manufacturer.

The Bargain Box is most likely more helpful to such purchasers (and potential developers) as a source of perspective on what specs their pre-constructed framework ought to meet.

For the aficionado who demands constructing his or her own container, however, a pre-manufactured box isn't a decision. Building it yourself, even a deal framework, is an absolute necessity. The Bargain Box is gone for them. At the point when even a stripped-down Budget Box is excessively, the Bargain Box is intended to give an even lower-spec'd value point.

We do attempt to underline a couple of things we believe are justified regardless of the cash, especially higher-proficiency control supplies (PSU) than are ordinarily found in clearance room boxes, and also USB 3.0. Neither might be basic, yet in the event that you're building it yourself, they are pleasant things to consider for moderately insignificant cost.

Shouldn't something be said about tablets?

Tablets are the greatest change since the last refresh of the Bargain Box. They're presently sufficiently intense, sufficiently light, sufficiently reasonable, and have sufficiently pleasant screens to deal with regular processing for a ton of buyers.

For a couple of things, however, clients might need to keep a desktop around. Media must be put away some place, and that might be on a PC. Photograph preparing (not simply review) is as yet not perfect on a tablet, and there are bunches of times where the virtual console on a touchscreen is unfeasible.

The line is getting progressively obscured, however. Tablets have console docks, all the more preparing force, bring down expenses, and expanded utilization of the cloud for capacity. Likewise, bear in mind the netbook; it involves a similar value point—really a lower one than top of the line tablets—yet packs a physical console and a hard plate for mass stockpiling. Preparing force is still somewhat light by desktop norms be that as it may, and generally low screen determination is a constraining element for genuine use.Bargain Box Basics

The Bargain Box is the most reduced cost setup in the System Guides. It's valued underneath even the Budget Box from the fundamental three-box System Guide, yielding any falsification of gaming capacity for even lower cost and skill at just the most essential errands. The objective is sub-$500 (without OS) for the Bargain Box, including screen, mouse, and console.

While a low value, esteem centered box is the objective, we had a couple of needs. An adjust of preparing force, stockpiling, and two slight liberalities over unquestionably the most minimal cost: USB 3.0 and a conventional, high-proficiency control supply. Every one of that media needs to go some place, and too small preparing power implies the Bargain Box would be an errand to utilize, so those get some consideration. USB 3.0 might anticipate the future, yet it's a future that is as of now well on its way. At long last, a high-proficiency influence supply is a decent thing to have, both as far as sparing cash over the long haul and as far as decreasing the A/C stack in the mid year.

Sparing a couple of more dollars should be possible, yet we feel the Bargain Box does the employment to the extent the most reduced sensibly valued framework conceivable without compromising.

Last note: picking an OS

Sadly, the working framework is a critical lump of progress in a $500 box. Windows 7 Home Premium is effectively 15 to 25% of the financial plan, while an open-source OS, for example, Linux Mint or Ubuntu still does not have the footing (and the clean) on the shopper desktop that Windows has.

Because of the commonness of Windows, it's difficult to disregard. Such a large number of clients know about it, especially business ones, that non-Windows working frameworks are not an alluring alternative. As noted, Linux tends to need footing in the desktop showcase, and to non-nerds. The clean required never appears to very be there in many eyes.

For the individuals who do trust Linux is justified regardless of an attempt, keep in mind to look outside the standard all out distros and into others, for example, XFCE and E17 desktop conditions. There are likewise particular ones for particular uses (ought to your necessities coordinate), like the media focus centered XBMC.

The Bargain Box

We cover two variants, one controlled by AMD and one fueled by Intel. Each has qualities and shortcomings: better CPU execution with Intel, better representation execution with AMD.

Normal parts

GeIL 2x2GB (4GB) DDR3-1600 1.5v = $26.99

Seagate 500GB 7200rpm = $79.99

LG 22x DVD-RW = $16.99

NZXT Source 210 = $39.99

Seasonic SS-300ET 300W = $39.99

Acer S201HLbd 20" 1600x900 = $99.99

Microsoft Wired Desktop 600 = $22.99

Speakers (no particular suggestion) = $15

Fueled by Intel

Intel Pentium G620 (2.6ghz) retail = $69.99

Gigabyte GA-H61MA-D3V = $69.99

Add up to = $481.91

Fueled by AMD

AMD A4-3400 (2.7ghz) = $69.99

Gigabyte GA-A75M-D2H = $79.99

Add up to = $491.91

Contrasts in execution between the processor and illustrations are genuine, however execution in the fantastic plan of things is as yet restricted. Still, the distinctions may matter more to particular client sorts, so we talk about both.

Processor

Intel adaptation: Pentium G620 retail

AMD rendition: A4-3400 retail

AMD and Intel both offer diverse qualities for the Bargain Box. AMD offers notably prevalent illustrations execution (Anandtech), while Intel offers essentially better CPU execution and power utilization over the double center A4-3400.

On the AMD side, for a couple bucks more, the triple-center A6-3650 contends much better with the Pentium G620 in CPU execution. It likewise smashes the Pentium G620 in GPU execution, yet this begins the dangerous incline of conceivable redesigns and more cash. It is something worth considering given the little premium, yet we leave that in the hands of individual manufacturers.

Intel's Pentium chips are fairly disabled with littler reserves, bring down clockspeeds, no Turbo Boost, and the slower forms of Intel's HD Graphics contrasted with their undeniable Core i3/i5/i7 brethren. Regardless of all that, despite everything it takes a triple-center AMD chip to stay aware of a double center Pentium. It's not quite recently that Intel's Sandy Bridge engineering is great, however AMD has slacked that much on the CPU execution side. Much like AMD, a couple bucks more purchases speedier Intel chips, for example, the Pentium G850, yet this time, the execution pick up is a great deal more minimal. The CPU side is sufficiently quick, yet the design side is still moderate (we don't think of it as justified, despite all the trouble). Truth be told, venturing down to the double center Celeron G540 may be justified, despite all the trouble if each and every dollar checks—simply dodge the single-center parts even lower in the lineup.

The Bargain Box is distinctly not planned for gaming, but rather AMD's representation execution favorable position is sufficiently generous that it merits saying. Remember that contrasted with any kind of remotely beneficial discrete card, for example, the Radeon HD 6770 or nVidia Geforce GTX 550 Ti, coordinated design execution is best portrayed as iron deficient. Indeed, even the Radeon HD 6570 is remarkably quicker.

Bring down influence CPUs, for example, the Intel Atom and AMD Brazos (otherwise known as E-350 APU, and its brethren) could be utilized, yet they don't spare especially cash in the Bargain Box, in spite of their critical hit in execution. Notwithstanding for lightweight photograph administration or gushing 1080p video, we feel they're a tad bit excessively of a hit for the generally little reserve funds they give. Less memory could likewise be utilized, yet memory is so shabby today... anything less appears to be senseless.

Heatsink: try to get a retail boxed CPU. The included heatsink/fan is more than sufficient.

To the extent the genuine processor decision in the Bargain Box, we consider both really legitimate. For most by far of office-bound or Mom/Dad/Grandparent-bound frameworks, we may incline toward the Intel setup because of lower power utilization, however the inside and out adaptability conceded by AMD's prevalent design execution is unquestionably worth considering.

Motherboard

We have one non-standard necessity for the Bargain Box: USB 3.0.

Some may see USB 3.0 as superfluous, however we might at present want to see some quantify of future-sealing. USB 3.0 is both sensible and moderate. It's quick, shabby, and with a plenty of outside USB 3.0 hard circles as of now available, it's now helpful.

The exceptionally least expensive motherboards tend to skip USB 3.0, yet a couple bucks more gets a moderate Intel H61 chipset board or an AMD A75 chipset board with USB 3.0 implicit. The low-end Intel H61 chipset overlooks SATA 6Gbps, while the better-highlighted AMD A75 chipset incorporates that too.

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