I want to get a new computer next month. I've been using an old computer (a 1.5Ghz AMD) for a while now. It has 1GB ram and a nice nvidia card with 256MB DDR3 memory (700mhz clock).
But since I switched to kde two months ago, it's been overheating rapidly and 1GB is hardly enough KDE (Gnome used to never use more than ~160MB ram).
I've been wanting to get a new computer for a while now but I don't want to lose my current ArchLinux installation which I've had since 2006. I rebuilt almost all packages after gcc 4.6 came out (a huge effort as it required some patching). Both my hard disks use LUKS encryption (apart from boot and swap partitions) so this is a pr0 Linux setup.
My current hard disks are both IDE. I already moved the hard disks once in 2007 from a Intel to this AMD.
Linux will continue to boot on a new computer as long as the cpu will run 32bit software with i686 optimizations.
Will I be able to install my current hard disks on a new computer? If I understand correctly, new computers all use serial ATA. If not, I'd rather stick to this computer.
But since I switched to kde two months ago, it's been overheating rapidly and 1GB is hardly enough KDE (Gnome used to never use more than ~160MB ram).
I've been wanting to get a new computer for a while now but I don't want to lose my current ArchLinux installation which I've had since 2006. I rebuilt almost all packages after gcc 4.6 came out (a huge effort as it required some patching). Both my hard disks use LUKS encryption (apart from boot and swap partitions) so this is a pr0 Linux setup.
My current hard disks are both IDE. I already moved the hard disks once in 2007 from a Intel to this AMD.
Linux will continue to boot on a new computer as long as the cpu will run 32bit software with i686 optimizations.
Will I be able to install my current hard disks on a new computer? If I understand correctly, new computers all use serial ATA. If not, I'd rather stick to this computer.