On 5/15/05, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > friday and gotta think of a price to ask. 'course I'd consider offers from > > this list first, saves me having to install that other OS in order to sell > > them ;-) > > Much simpler: you leave them as is and sell them internet ready with > a legal copy of full office software.
An interesting idea, and one I'd considered. But I suspect people who will be interested in the newer one will be more interested in 3D games than simple email and office apps (read: windows games). Do you think your average joe public would be interested in buying it with linux on it? (that's not a rhetorical question, I'm interested in honest opinions). If I do sell it with billyware, I'll still include a legal copy of full office software - OpenOffice.org :) The older one I might have a better chance of selling as an "internet ready" machine for browsing / word processing / email, it's still plenty quick enough and would be priced quite a lot lower. I might try selling that one with linux, see how it goes. But not gentoo, something more.. um... "point and click" maybe. What distro would be good, do you think? I have knoppix 3.2 CDs lying around, maybe I'll throw that on it... Cheers, Gareth
