I believe i did most of that no problem on my old Celeron 533mhz, so I'd say reuse whatever hardware you can. Spend the money elsewhere.
If you want to build a low end machine with new parts however, a cheap AMD system with onboard video can be had for next to nothing buying the parts on newegg.com Michael Gorman On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Michael Sokolov <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello fellow Linux users, > > I'm looking for some advice. I need to put together a new Linux desktop > PC for my girlfriend's cubicle at our new office and I'm looking for > advice on the hardware requirements. > > The intended use for this desktop PC is to run Slackware Linux and to do > the following: > > * Browse the web comfortably with Firefox; > * Listen to MP3s and other audio; > * Watch videos -- not looking for anything HD, just YouTube-like quality > is plenty enough. > > All of the above will be running under twm or some other lean & mean X11 > window manager, we will _NOT_ run GNOME or KDE and we will certainly > _NOT_ run any of those idiotic 3D desktops. And no games. > > So here is my question: now that I've stated my intended use, what kind > of hardware requirements does it translate into? Is this something that > calls for new current HW, or is it an application where older > unwanted-by-others HW will do fine? > > If I should build this from brand new parts, any recommendations on what > I should buy and where? Or if my application would be served well by > older gear, would anyone have any for sale? We already have the monitor > (a very nice Viewsonic), keyboard and mouse, only the main CPU box > remains to be put together. > > TIA for any advice, > MS > > P.S. Will there be a SRCLE meeting this coming Saturday? > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
