Chosing cheap desktop: recommendation?

[Pete Lancashire]

Hello from Portland Oregon,

I joined TLUG in that I may be moving to Toronto which is
very close to where I was born.

I'm curious does Toronto have anything like Portland's
FreeGeek.org ?

http://www.freegeek.org or a short video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=625LPUACix0

-pete



> Hi,
>
> I would like to find a cheap desktop for playing with Fedora 9
> and Centos 5. Because the "cheap" requirement, I don't think I
> can get it by chosing each parts separately and configure it
> into a system. Beside I probably don't have the time. :-) So I
> looked into the choices from Canada Computers and wonder which
> one will have good compatibility with linux? I listed the
> choices below. Note: Serenity is Canada Computers' own brand, I
> know some model have Biostar motherboard but not sure if all of
> them are.
>
>   - Serenity T1150, AMD Sempron LE-1150 2GHz, nVidia nForce 630a
> / GeForce 7050 chipset.
>   - Serenity T1100, AMD Athlon 64 3200+, apparently some Via
> chipset (S3 UniChrome Graphics).
>   - Shuttle K45PC, Intel Celeron Dual-Core E1200, Intel 945GC /
> ICH7 chipset.
>   - Serenity T1080, Intel Celeron Dual-Core E1200. Intel 945GC /
> ICH7 Chipset.
>
> (from
> http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=cpl&id=170.45&sort=3)
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> BTW, suggestion to other option to get such computers are
> welcome, too. Although getting it from Canada Computers is
> somewhat preferred at this point.
>
> Thanks!
>
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