John decided a long time ago to get himself a new desktop. After a lot of research, he settled on a system from Shuttle. They offer smaller case sizes with a smaller motherboard pre-installed. Slap a processor, RAM, and a hard drive in the case and you are all set.

He does the research. I am the impulse buyer. I basically bought the same setup that he has, except I upgraded to an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Dual-core 2.6GHz CPU. Faster with more cache.

I had to one up him. There is no way I was letting him have a faster rig me!

The Gentoo install is chugging away right now. The base install is all set, and I am compiling Xorg and fluxbox. I should have most of the apps up and running tomorrow…