Best distro for "Overclocking"?

[BigPanda]

ok well im still "aqurering" windows xp and i wanted to know what linux os would be the best to use in the mean time.

I will only be overclocking no games or nothing,

[jjcom]

I like SuSE, but really any distro should work fine. Check out the suse linux ftp servers, you can get a copy of SuSE 9.1 personal.

jjcom

[redgoo]

I don't think you'll find that any distros are better than any others strictly for overclocking. Just use whichever one you like best.

[BigPanda]

ok thanks shall try suse

[masterofpuppets]

There's no best distro for overclocking, it's all a matter of taste. I am, myself, a Debian guy. But yeah, SuSE is definately worth a try.

[perkam]

suse 64-bit edition :D

Perkam

[shadowing]

Gentoo :P

But Gentoo takes too much of a time to compile...

I'd go with Mandrake, or Suse.

[del_fuego]

Gentoo :P

But Gentoo takes too much of a time to compile...



Try VidaLinux OS. Its Gentoo but without all the hassle. http://desktop.vidalinux.com/

Cya.

[agenda2005]

SuSe 9.3 should be out mid-april with lots of improvement. I Agree with Perkam, SuSe 64 bit all the way!!

[shadowing]

There's only one flaw with Suse. It uses the ReiserFS system. The ReiserFS is pretty unstable...

[RAndomaN]

fedoracore 64bit edition, apparantly thats rather good

[masterofpuppets]

Yeah, I lost faith in ReiserFS a while ago when I lost an entire partition suddenly and could never recover it. Now I'm sticking with the old, slow, and reliable Ext3.

[jjcom]

Can't you choose how you want the drive formated? I know you can choose in 9.0, did they change it in 9.1 or 9.2?

jjcom

[sllywhtboy]

Yeah, I lost faith in ReiserFS a while ago when I lost an entire partition suddenly and could never recover it. Now I'm sticking with the old, slow, and reliable Ext3.i too am converting back to ext3. i keep hearing of problems w/ 2.4 and reiser. now, the reiser package for debian requires 2.6.

one of my disks lost its reiser journal/index in a reboot. a quick repair put everything into one directory...all 110gb of it. i restored/reorganized what i didn't have elsewhere and restored the rest from another box (redundancy rocks! :D )

[Zedex]

Slackware :D was stable more so than windows on my last system when overclocked. I agree about using ext3 or maybe ext2, most other file systems I've tried tend to bug out with overclocking when you hit higher clocks.

[IluvIntel]

Anyone tried Fedora Core 3 for O/C and running folding@home? I'm trying it out, once I get all the updates for the home desktop version on 2nd PC sig spec machine. (see below)

[jjcom]

I found something out...in SuSE, 2.16ghz is stable, but in Windows, 2.25ghz is stable and my D2OL output on that rig goes up. :D

jjcom

[KoolDrew]

Debian ;)

[thetruememphis]

RED HAT 9.0 by far the best linux i've ever used. and i have been using linux for a few years and i've tryed all of them from debrain all the way to suse to yellow dog. red hats just stable easy to use and a good software bundle in general.

[masterofpuppets]

I disagree. It's terribly out of date from the box, uses a 2.4 kernel (ARGH TEH SLOWNESS), and is from Red Hat (who I hate with a passion).

[KoolDrew]

I disagree. It's terribly out of date from the box, uses a 2.4 kernel (ARGH TEH SLOWNESS), and is from Red Hat (who I hate with a passion).

I agree. I prefer Debian or Slackware.

[masterofpuppets]

Gentoo has grown on me alot. Just done a stage1 install on my Pentium II! took hours to bootstrap!!!

[KoolDrew]

Out of all the distros I have tried I have never tried Gentoo.

[ReDaLeRt]

hi.

try this: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=overclockix :)

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[KingGuru]

fedora core 4 works for me.. came out the other day..

[masterofpuppets]

Ok, I've definately gotta say Gentoo now. Been using it for a week or two, now I have got it running GCC 3.4.4 as the default compiler, XFCE4.2 + GNOME's Nautilus (as a Filemanager and to provide desktop icons), 2 kernels, 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 and 2.6.11-cko5. (First one for experimental use, and second one for gaming/general use). Portage is damn great, and it's configuration scripts are most conveniant.

EDIT: I included a screeny of my Gentoo desktop :) It's downsized to 1280x960 from 1600x1200 and saved as a 80% quality JPEG to keep the size down, the original Level 9 compression PNG was 20mb!! :O

[perkam]

fedora core 4 works for me.. came out the other day..

Oh hey FC4 Final is out...nice....I installed Mandriva in the mean time ...but its not bad :)

THis is what my Mandriva Desktop looks like....Havent tweaked it much...but its a mile ahead of my winxp install in terms of stability and responsiveness :)

Perkam

[masterofpuppets]

perkam, looks a little cluttered with the K bar at the side :O

[[XC] moddolicous]

Alrite, I'm gonna have to try linux. I'm going with gentoo, since I've heard alot of good stuff. I just need it to be stable, and crunch D2OL. If anyone wants to tell me a different distro, speak now. I'll also game mildly, not a ton.

[KoolDrew]

Alrite, I'm gonna have to try linux. I'm going with gentoo, since I've heard alot of good stuff. I just need it to be stable, and crunch D2OL. If anyone wants to tell me a different distro, speak now. I'll also game mildly, not a ton.

I personally like Debian, but distro is all personal preference really. Some people have been using Mandrake forever and think it is the best. I don't see why exactly, but whatever you like best is the best distro for you basically.