[luau] My Current Linux Needs

[Casey Roberts]

This may not be much help at all, since you are
wanting to not spend a lot of money, but Tiger Direct
has a Toshiba Satellite 4010 (Intel Pentium II 266MHz)
for $379.97 plus shipping.  That laptop may be better
for you if you want to stick to one of the major
distros, such as Red Hat, SuSE, or Mandrake.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=T24-1552%20P

If I find a better deal than that on a i586 laptop, I
will pass it along.

Casey


> demon_jr808 wrote:
> > To everyone that responded to my previous post,
> thanks!
> >  
> > This is a more specific version of my previous
> question, but I hope 
> > everyone doesn't mind.
> >  
> > I wish to learn and become profecient in using
> Linux, but at the moment, 
> > the only thing holding me back are my hardware
> requirements and what I 
> > will actually be using the Linux system for.
> >  
> > I am looking to purchase a laptop, but being very,
> very, very, poor, I 
> > can not afford anything close to a modern system.
> As a result, I have 
> > been looking for refurbished laptops at the very
> low end of the scale, 
> > ranging around $100 to $200. As a result, the only
> laptops I have been 
> > able to find are very low end, ranging from 486 to
> Pentium 133 and with 
> > ram ranging from 8 MB to 16 MB, along with hard
> drives that barely reach 
> > 1-2 GB.
> >  
> >  From my past readings regarding Linux, I have
> read that Linux requires 
> > very little in the way of hardware to run fast and
> smoothly. Many of my 
> > readings at the time, indicated that a 486 system
> with 8 MB was more 
> > than sufficient to run a Linux system. From what I
> have read, a system 
> > that would appear slow in Windows 95, as a result
> of old and dated 
> > hardware, would become amazingly fast in Linux.
> This being the case, I 
> > believed that Linux would be an excellent choice
> of OS to install on an 
> > old and dated laptop.
> >  
> > I will be using the system for mainly two tasks:
> as a learning ground 
> > for Linux and web page design. I am just a newbie
> when it comes to web 
> > page design, however I can code very simple pages
> using HTML, CSS, and a 
> > very simple text editor, such as Notepad on
> Windows. This being the 
> > case, for a Linux system, I would need a text
> editor similar to Notepad 
> > along with browsers, such as IE or Netscape. I
> have used Pico a great 
> > deal in the past, however that was only in the
> shell. Since I wish to 
> > practice making web pages in a graphical
> environment, believe I will 
> > have to use the Linux GUI.
> >  
> > In regards to the Linux GUI, I really have no idea
> what the difference 
> > is between X, KDE, and Gnome. However, I have read
> that running these 
> > "applications" increases the hardware requirements
> on the Linux system.
> >  
> > Now taking into account the above, what kind of
> system would you recommend?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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