OT: New PC

[Spoo]

Does SE5 work under wine yet?

[Atrocities]

Is there an all in one easy installation version of linux?

[Xrati]

Some of the old threads here talk about the differnt versions of Linux. I found Knoppix and Caldara to be pretty easy to deal with when starting out. The expert would be Ed Kolis who was recommending these for getting started. You may just want to PM him to see what you might like.

[Fyron]

Ubuntu/Kubuntu is the answer for your easy to use Linux needs...

But really, Linux is an absolutely terrible choice for a gaming machine. You will have about 100 orders of magnitude more hassles trying to game with Wine/Cedega than just doing it on Windows. There are lots of good uses for Linux; gaming just isn't one of them. Advocating it in a thread that is obviously about a gaming PC is doing a great disservice to the poster...

And no, SE5 does not work at all under Wine/Cedega.

[Atrocities]

What would be a good affordable standard + wireless combined DSL modem to buy? The one I have from qwest keeps taking turds on me. I lost ISP from 5pm to 5am each day for three days now. Qwest says there is no problem yet, I go without service during those hours. My modem says its ok and has full download and upload, *Upload is fine during these hours* but download is worse than 14.4 dial up speeds at @ less than 2kps.

[Xrati]

AT, I guess the old saying will apply. You're going to pay more for better quality. Linksys has some good wireless products. I have an old Westell DSL router that I use. I use a USB to DSL input on my router. It's hooked to a USB wireless connection to cable. I can use all three computers on-line with the router OR just connect the USB to any of the computers and go solo. The router has a built in firewall plus I run my own firewall on each computer. You should first try to get your DSL provider to straighten out the problems you are having as it sounds as though they are giving you the runaround.

[Fyron]

Combo modem/router boxes are always garbage. What you want is a good router with a good dedicated modem box. Linksys WRT54GL is a good option (esp. if you want to install a custom firmware like OpenWRT or DDWRT and learn more about Linux ). The latest revisions of WRT54G and WRT54GS (5.0 and later) do not add any new features, but instead reduce the amount of on-board memory and use an ugly VXWorks embedded OS instead of Linux; you cannot run the custom firmwares on them. WRT54GL is essentially a rebranded WRT54GS v4.0, complete with the extra memory. Even if you don't want to delve into custom firmware, the WRT54GL is simply a better piece of hardware. You probably won't find it in brick&mortar stores, but places like newegg.com sell it.

Furthermore, don't buy the draft-N junk; its a waste of money for 99% of home networks, on hardware that might not be compatible with the final 802.11N specs to boot.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Who needs new PC? The old PC is bad enough!

(Sorry, bad pun)

[Atrocities]

my old PC -
P75
850 meg HD
2mb Video Card
4 megs Ram
SB 16
14.4 modem

Ya its time to update.

[GuyOfDoom]

Wow that's got me beat for old.