How to put together a home desktop computer for email and access to all the enhancements of varied web sites.

[Brian J. Conway]

What's with all the open-ended questions vaguely related to Linux?

http://www.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/2003-November/044066.html

http://www.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/2003-November/044113.html

http://www.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/2003-November/044139.html

Are we doing homework for you or something?  To answer the latest (and
first) question, there are a number of sites dedicated to reviewing
hardware quality and Linux compatability, including
http://www.linuxhardware.org/ and http://www.linuxhardware.net/ .

-b

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:51:28 -0500
Don Saklad <dsaklad at zurich.csail.mit.edu> wrote:

> a. You're putting together a home desktop computer with GNU/Linux for
> email
>    and for access to all the features and enhancements, of varied web
>    sites, emphasis on access to all of the features of varied web sites
>    and emphasis on access to all of the enhancements of varied web
>    sites, what motherboard would you look to for this device?...
> 
> 
> 
> b. What other basic home desktop computer hardware for GNU/Linux
>    would you want included for this machine?...
> 
> 
> 
> In asking around even the best people either reply with jargon that
> enthusiastic neophytes wouldn't get or respond obliquely that answers
> could be presumptive of the general lack of acknowledgement of problems
> that consumers have with, for example, the dell or the iMac computers.
> 
> 
> 
> Some references tried
> http://www.pcsforeveryone.com
> http://www.vcr1.com/263195.html
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Brian J. Conway
bconway at alum.wpi.edu

"LINUX is obsolete"
     - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992