I know that linux is robust, powerful and flexible ok... but what exactly is possible with it? (remember exotic not industrial, but close to it i guess)
Consider the following silly millionnaire setups...
Multiple soundcards? one recording the other playing back? and maybe another for system sounds? 3 soundcards?
one powerful video card feeding multiple monitors, and/or maybe a tv? or more than one video card feeding multiple monitors or multiple video cards for a lovely widescreen monitor and obviously the desktop stretched, or maybe two screens on one widescren desktop?, what are the biggest resolutions we can get? (i know it's down to the hardware, but what can linux do? what is known and a popular massive size?)
What about multiple processors? i know it can handle multiple processors, SMP right, but how many? and what gains can be had and how does linux handle all the power? and what motherboard can handle more than two processors?
What about RAID, what can be done? how many HDD's can be put in the raid, and how big can be done? And memory?? I got 512MB, Linux flies on it, but say u did scientific applications at home, or proper 3D stuff, or massive DB's? How many Gb's can Linux handle and share resourcefully?
What exactly is Linux able to do, or not do as the case may be? I all the above little q's might be a bit vague, but i'm just curious, I am askin in a homeuser kinda way here, not so much industrial... i.e building a dream machine which is more than capable of doing anything u throw at it or do anything u ask it to... lets see what is said here... this will be interesting!!