[Gllug] Linux Desktop PC for 150 quid (Not ADV)

Wed Apr 12 16:20:56 UTC 2006

> "Great cheap PC. I've put Windows on it and it works fine."

What did they do that for?!

;P

On 12/04/06, Paul Rayner <paul at ylemsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> On 12 Apr 2006, at 17:37, Russell Howe wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 03:33:31PM +0100, Ryan Cartwright wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Anyone looking for cheap Linux desktops PC?
>
> >> http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?product_uid=89079
> >> Celeron-D 315 2.26GHz 256MB 40GB CD LAN LINUX + OOo
>
> I bought 2 of these ebuyer machines back in November.
>
> >>
> >> Doesn't say which distro but it's about £50 cheaper than the
> >> equivalent
> >> Windows tax machine from the same place.
>
> One came with no OS, but a SuSE 9 CD set, and the other had a version
> of Mandriva. Both now run FC4, and have been on pretty much 24/7 since
> November. One of them now has a DVB cart and a TDM400 card, and an
> extra 256mb ram, and happily runs Asterisk and MythTV, and 2 160gb USB2
> drives.
>
> > Not much mention of monitors on the specs for the PCs, which could
> > almost double the price.
>
> They don't come with screens.
>
> > Still, it's nice to see them listed.
>
> True, even if most of the user comments (at least when I looked) are
> along the lines of
>
> "Great cheap PC. I've put Windows on it and it works fine."
>
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> > Russell Howe       | Why be just another cog in the machine,
> > rhowe at siksai.co.uk | when you can be the spanner in the works?
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