Re: Re: Where to start: hardware and reading material
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On Saturday 08 October 2011 13:38:39 Bruce Kingsbury wrote: > 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. I'd echo that :) cr (Thinkpad A20m, R40, R50....) _______________________________________________ NZLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nzlug