On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:24, Andy and Dana wrote: > I thought you all may have more ideas on > where I can get something. It doesn't need to be flash, but I would like > 80Gb+ hard drive space, which I can buy separately/expand if needed, and > something that I can run a full windowing gui on.
For "pre-loved" machines you might care to contact:- The Computer Broker 366 1310 Dark Star Imports 374 5728 There are several other shops in Washington Way where the Computer Broker is situated. > I am also looking for some flavour of Linux, I've kind of lost touch > with it as I have been travelling for the past few years - basically I > want to: run LAMP, play music and have the potential to watch films if I > ever fork out for a DVD player. I would also like my 'not interested in > Linux at all' partner to be able to use it so Gnome or whatever is > definitely needed. Is there a flavour of choice among the group? Would > anyone be able to make me a copy - which I would cover the costs of? I have found that Ubuntu has by far the least painful install. Note that it asks to download updates. When I said 'yes' to that it fetched some 170Mb of files. It defaults to Gnome, and since it is a Debian offshoot it has apt-get which enables you to install anything you need. In a word: It's slick. otoh if you are into fiddling around with your machine, Gentoo has a following on this list. > Finally - can I attend the AGM? Of course. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
