sheehaneil
03-30-2006, 05:28 PM
I recently acquired an IBM Intellistation M Pro off lease with no installed operating system. I am hoping someone can offer recommendations for the best operating system to install to take full advantage full of the workstation. Hardware is:
Dual Xenon 2.2 ghz processors
2gig pc800 rdram
2 120 gig ide hard drives
1 36 gig scsi hard drive
NVIDIA Quado4 900xgl video card w/ 128meg ram
plus the usual optical drives
The system originally ran on Window 2000 Professional which is no longer available direct from IBM. So no recovery possible for the original OEM software and COA.
As setting up my work computers is a quick as possible means to an end I'd prefer Windows of some type just because of familiarity - I don't want to spend lots of time learning set up for Linnux or other OS options.
Any thoughts out there? Thanks in advance
Dual Xenon 2.2 ghz processors
2gig pc800 rdram
2 120 gig ide hard drives
1 36 gig scsi hard drive
NVIDIA Quado4 900xgl video card w/ 128meg ram
plus the usual optical drives
The system originally ran on Window 2000 Professional which is no longer available direct from IBM. So no recovery possible for the original OEM software and COA.
As setting up my work computers is a quick as possible means to an end I'd prefer Windows of some type just because of familiarity - I don't want to spend lots of time learning set up for Linnux or other OS options.
Any thoughts out there? Thanks in advance