Hey Chris,<br><br>If you are building everything from scratch and want to understand the proper working at hardware<br>level, I would say you go for source compilation from **scratch** . <br><br>The distribution I would suggest is 'gentoo'
<br><br>Now, debian installation as standalone is not very easy, unless of course you go for <br>a debian based distro whether be ubuntu, knoppix, kubuntu....<br><br>portage is to gentoo what apt is to debian. So you would pretty much end up
<br>getting all the benefits of apt and also be able to compile everything fom source - which of course would<br>make the most efficient use of your cpu cycles. <br><br> I think that gentoo's repositories have much more stuff than the deb repositories (as you would have thought, you have to wait
<br>before someone deb compiles and puts in the repository)<br><br>However, gentoo is source based, so you would get bleeeding edge packages pretty fast<br>Rest, I would say to make sure the chipsets you are using are compatible, or else you would have to
<br>find something that works.<br><br>But here in lies the pitfall, installing gentoo from source would mean continous compilation from <br>on a serious basis(considering you install gnome, kde, openoffice and other usual stuff) would take almost a week or so
<br><br>Incase you dont wanna do that then gentoo binaries are also available. <br> <br> So, the fields open and the choice is yours. <br><br>---<br>hope is the quintessential human illusion... simultaneously the source of your greatest strength
<br>and your greatest weakness<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Crawford</b> <<a href="mailto:cpc5@buffalo.edu">cpc5@buffalo.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I would like to build a machine that would run Debian. I have never put<br>together my own machine before, much less try to build one that would<br>support Linux reasonably well.<br><br>My main goals for putting together my own machine include a desire learn
<br>more about how computers work at the hardware level, a desire to learn<br>how Linux works together with hardware, and the satisfaction of having<br>put together my own machine.<br><br>Does anyone have advice that would help me to avoid the pitfalls of
<br>building a machine that supports Linux (specifically Debian)?<br><br>Are there any useful resources I should check out that will help me<br>learn more about computer hardware and building my own machine?<br><br><br>Thanks,
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