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?
