[plug] dual-boot "gamers" machine h/w suggestions please?

[William Kenworthy]

On my wifes laptop I use grub to select either gentoo or doze.  Linux
suspends using a suspend2 patched kernel, and doze as doze does
(hibernate).  So you just need to suspend either (to disk, not ram!),
and resume the one you want.  Grub uses a 1 second timeout - enough for
me to select linux, but is almost transparent when booting the default
XP, so she who must be obeyed doesnt get upset and yell at me for
fiddling with her pride and joy :)

If it was one of my own machines, I run doze in vmware or qemu (my
current preference) and suspending within that - you can get quite a
fast resume that way, and doze is rock solid)!!

BillK


On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 07:06 +0800, Caleb Duggan wrote:
> A little off-topic but, is there a quicker way to switch between windows  
> and linux without completely restarting the computer? so like drop back  
> the the stage where the bootloader comes up.
> 
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:13:29 +0800, Denis Brown  
> <dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> > Dear PLUG list members,
> >
> > A bit out of my depth with this one not being a game player :-(
> >
> > Looking for recommendations for commercially built and supported,  
> > preferably brand-name desktop hardware capable of good gaming graphics  
> > performance.   Will dual-boot Lin / Win.
> >
> > My stock-in-trade is IBM but unless we went totally high-end,  
> > Intellistation, blah blah blah they don't seem to be in the hunt  
> > performance wise, and then the price hurts :-)   My next thought was HP,  
> > something like the dc7600 with a decent graphics card a la items that  
> > have been mentioned here from time to time.
> >
> > Background:
> > An Important Person (tm) in my work environment seeks recommendations  
> > from yours truly regards a suitable PC for his teenage son for games  
> > playing.
> >
> > The lad has all the jargon and while I can find my way around PCs and  
> > work stations, spec 'em, build 'em, etc I want to make a sane  
> > recommendation that is not going to leave the lad high and dry, bankrupt  
> > nor occupy my time down the track because "you told him to buy these  
> > bits and bolt them together..."   Hence commercial and brand-name.
> >
> > To keep this on topic, lad wants to do Computer Science in Uni so he'll  
> > be capable of some self-help and has expressed an interest in using  
> > Linux on such hardware.
> >
> > Principle questions relate to chipset performance for a given CPU,  
> > memory, hdd transfer rate, clock speed, etc I imagine.   This is where I  
> > think IBM tends to tread on the cautious side so in general their mobos  
> > are less punchy that some of the specs I've read.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Denis
> >
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> 
> 
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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