Linux Computer

[Christopher Friedt]

Hi Randy,

Actually, I have a desktop PC that I would like to sell. I've had it for 
approximately 1 year and 2 months. It's an AMD64 system. The only reason 
I'm getting rid of it is because I'm living for the most part in Germany 
and moved everything out of my place in Toronto - except for this 
computer. I've spent a pretty large effort to ensure that all of the 
hardware inside of it is compatible with linux. It's quite loaded, but I 
would be willing to give it away for a price incredibly lower than what 
you're planning to spend. It includes a monitor, mouse, speakers, a 
gamepad, as well as all of the pci cards inside.

Email me off list if you're interested, but please change the Subject 
line, otherwise it will likely get filtered into the depth of my TLUG 
folder.

Cheers,

~/Chris

Randy Jonasz wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I hope the long weekend is treating you well. In lieu of doing my own
> research or as part of that research, I thought I would toss out a
> general question.  I'm putting together a desktop computer for my
> parents.  They need to run linux and they want to spend around $1200.
> What sort of hardware can I get that will be fully compatible with
> mandriva?  They use the computer mainly as a window onto the internet
> and email, but from time to time,  they also edit and print digital
> photos as well with the gimp.
> 
> I'd like to go with a dual core amd athlon 64 with 2GB of ram and
> maybe a western digital sata hard drive.  I'm not sure what video card
> to get, but I'd like one with dvi out and nvidia chipset.  Don't need
> to worry about ethernet card as we have an old dlink which works well.
> Sound card is not all that important; they're used to a sb live.
> They also want a flatscreen lcd monitor, but this does not need to be
> included in the $1200, although if it could be, that would be great.
> 
> Any and all advice is welcome!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Randy
> 
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