1. New mobo and CPU. Any heads up before I install? (David Whyte)

[chrisjones at comcen.com.au]

If you're happy with Dapper then I see no reason for you to upgrade to Edgy. It
should run perfectly fine with your new hardware.

Chris Jones


> Hi list.
> 
> Some of you may remember back (quite) a few months to when I was
> having sporadic lockup issues with my server.  Well it has gotten to
> the point where I bought a new motherboard, CPU and RAM today to
> (hopefully) replace the offending piece of hardware.
> 
> I am going from a Sempron 2400 with VGA nVidia TNT2 graphics to a
> Pentium D 925 (i.e. dual core) with onboard Intel Extreme 2 graphics.
> 
> I imagine I should be using a different kernel and everything to use
> the CPU to it's full advantage but I have no idea which one I should
> be using.
> 
> Does the list have any recommendations for moving forward?  I would
> prefer to to have to do a clean install if I can at all help it :)  I
> am also happy with the Dapper installation that is currently running
> on the box, but will move to Edgy if there is a major benefit and it
> is painless enough :)
> 
> Regards,
> Whytey
>