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Originally Posted by red-beard
Lay it out for me. What are the advantages of going Linux?
I have almost enough parts to put together another PC. Yesterday, I decided to go ahead and upgrade my desktop to the top of the line CPU (AMD Phenom II X6 1090), move my 1055 to my wife's PC and then build one more with simply a MB and memory (I have a case, HD, DVD drive, etc).
I have one more copy of Win 7 Pro, but I might put Linux on this. Is it a 64 bit OS? If I were to load server, besides file server, what might I use to for? Mail server? How tough to setup?
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There are tons of Linux distros/flavors. Yes 64. If you want to run a mail server etc... look for a precompiled LAMP distro.
Just remember servers on Linux typically don't include a gui although one can be installed easily enough.
You can always load Win 7 and run Linux in a Virtual Machine so you can play around with it, see if you like it, get familiar. And if you decide to go that way you can leave the server installed on the VM and run from there.
Most PC's these days don't see 100% load. So VM's make sense, the PC has all this extra processing power/bandwidth just sitting there. Stick another OS on it and get your monies worth.
I like the VM Ware product but Virtual Box from Sun is free and wil do everything that you need it to do.