Re: Re: Where to start: hardware and reading material

Bruce Kingsbury <[email protected]>
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On 8 October 2011 13:31, Mike Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

> As a relative newbie myself I would recommend that you start with a
> desktop, I buy used (probably ex-leased) IBMs from a source on TradeMe, cost
> is minimal, around $50.
>
>
BTW Those ex-lease IBM's are very solid machines, and use an intel chipset
which have Intel-developed Free drivers so support for everything is built
right into the kernel. This is really the best option (imho) to get familiar
with Linux.
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