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I needed a new computer for home and this is what I ened up getting:

• Shuttle SG33G5
• Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
• 4GB DDR2 PC6400 800MHz RAM
• Western Digital Raptor 150GB HDD
• LG SuperMulti GSA-H62N SATA DVD Writer

The Shuttle barebones uses the Intel G33 chipset so it comes with an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100. No more binary-only video drivers!

Installing Linux on the box was a bit of a challenge. I couldn’t get the latest
Gentoo LiveCD to see the HDD. Eventually I found
that the Ubuntu Gusty Tribe 5 Alternative CD had the necessary drivers. So I installed Gentoo from a rescue shell on the Ubuntu CD and it was all good.

I got pretty much everything working except Compiz-Fusion which seems to be a Mesa issue with the G33 chipset.

I compiled the system with:

CHOST=”x86_64-pc-linux-gnu”
CFLAGS=”-march=nocona -O2 -pipe”
CXXFLAGS=”${CFLAGS}”
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=”~amd64″
MAKEOPTS=”-j5″

Config files available:

• kernel.config
• xorg.conf
• package.use

The box has been great so far.