[svlug] linux system...

[Rick Moen]

begin Jose Sanchez quotation:

> Well that is not my case. 

Cool.  Point for you.  Now:

(1) How do we make this effort scale, so that it can be of general,
lasting benefit rather than just a one-off
personal-consultation-for-free effort to benefit just you, to be
repeated next month when the next person re-opens this can of worms?

Past efforts at making hardware-selection advice scale:
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#hardware

You'll notice they're all out of date.  That's one of the pitfalls.

For that matter, 

(2) What's your heuristic for determining whose advice is worth heeding,
here?  If you already had a good grasp on hardware selection, you
wouldn't be asking the question.  Lacking that knowledge, how are you
intending to distinguish good advice from bad?

Are you going to listen to Don's advice, my advice, the advice of the
burger guy at In & Out, and average them?  

> And first of all why are you judging right away what's going to
> happen. 

s/judging/making an educated guess on the basis of long experience/

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