Re: [SLUG] Linux learners box

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 08:50:46 EDT


chris lee wrote:

>im trying to get ahold of a linux learners box for a friend of mine so i can slowly wean him from the M$ teat but im having a hard time finding something inexpensive that he dosent have to worry about reformatting a few times until he learns.
>
>does anybody who goes to the New Port Richey meetings have anything laying around that they can afford to get rid of for maybe 100 - 150$?
>
>it dosent have to be strong or fast, a CD drive, a 750mhz CPU, 256meg of ram, a eathernet card and a 10gig drive will do fine.
>
>Going for Fedora Core cause it was the first thing a ran across when he told me he wanted to learn Linux.
>
>no monitor keyboard or mouse needed because im getting him a hardware KVM so he can switch between his computer and this new (old) one.
>
>
How about one of those $200 walmart boxes? Or are they not doing that
anymore?
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