At 20:33 01/01/02 +0000, you wrote: > > At 21:18 31/12/01 +0000, Steven Murdoch wrote: > > >P.S. I almost fell over when I was in PCWorld when I mentioned Linux the > > >member of staff I spoke to said they had a Linux machine in store. Just > > >one, a Patriot Cyrix 533, 64Mb RAM, 10Gb HD with 17" Monitor of �399. >My brother has a book size on of these. > > > On another Linux mailing list I have just been told that the motherboard on > > these machines is unreliable, so it might not be such a good buy after all. >and it runs linux greate. >if it's not a book size one they I can't quote reliablity but if it is, then
There weren't any of these machines on display, but the manager told me it was book size. >if it is book size, where the extra disk gona go ? >they is only space for one. I wasn't considering this machine for myself, since I would like something considerably faster. I was looking at it for my Uncle who needs a basic word processing machine and I think a Linux workstation with everything stripped out - simple Window Manager (like Fvwm2 or IceWM), and set it up so that it can only load Mozilla and a Wordprocessor (maybe Abiword, Corel, or LyX). Since it would run Linux only there is no need for a second hard drive. Since your brother is doing fine with his then perhaps your brother's computer is different from the one described by the member of the other malling list, or perhaps he just got a good one. In any case thanks for the information. Steven. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.murdomedia.net/ PGP/GnuPG keys: http://www.murdomedia.net/keys.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
