[SLUG] Free software day

[Chris More]

Bob Garrood wrote:

> Linux isn't that hard!
> 
> What do you need to know to get a Linux system up and running?
>  
> You will find it easiest if you have a reasonably modern machine.  Linux is 
> famous for its ability to run on older machines, but to make life easy you 
> want a machine with at least 256MB of RAM and a processor with a speed of  at 
> least 700Mhz.  You can buy these, as second user, for about £100 by mail 
> order(try magazines like MicroMart), or you can buy new just off the High 
> Street for £150 plus the cost of a monitor(try Quay Tec opposite tkmax)
> 

Or you could get an up to date machine pre installed with mandrake for 
the same price.....

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?product_uid=89079

C