The most powerful, 100% open source PC

[BarfBag]

My dream is to find a sack of money and build the most powerful PC I can, while keeping it 100% open source. I'm curious whether or not this is possible. Links to hardware would be helpful.

Yes, I'm bored.

[Sunnz]

http://www.innovationstage.com/openoem/index.php

Pretty much what you said you want.

But not necessarily what you meant. :p

[ahaslam]

I don't see why it wouldn't be possibe :)

[happy-and-lost]

On System76's website, you can build a "supercomputer" with 8GB RAM and 2x 2.6GHz AMD processors, 600GB HDD and a 640MB Geforce card. :)

[Sunnz]

You mean, this thing: http://system76.com/product_info.php/cPath/43/products_id/186

Or??

[John.Michael.Kane]

You could build it around an eight or sixteen way opteron system. http://www.hpcsystems.com/servers.htm

[happy-and-lost]

Crikey, didn't see that one on System76. Now, if anyone has a time machine I can go back and bet everything on Silver Birch winning the Grand National... :twisted:

[maniacmusician]

you can't really build a powerful open source computer, due to lack of some hardware. For example, video cards. You'd probably go with nVidia, who are not open source.