This may not be much help at all, since you are wanting to not spend a lot of money, but Tiger Direct has a Toshiba Satellite 4010 (Intel Pentium II 266MHz) for $379.97 plus shipping. That laptop may be better for you if you want to stick to one of the major distros, such as Red Hat, SuSE, or Mandrake.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=T24-1552%20P If I find a better deal than that on a i586 laptop, I will pass it along. Casey > demon_jr808 wrote: > > To everyone that responded to my previous post, > thanks! > > > > This is a more specific version of my previous > question, but I hope > > everyone doesn't mind. > > > > I wish to learn and become profecient in using > Linux, but at the moment, > > the only thing holding me back are my hardware > requirements and what I > > will actually be using the Linux system for. > > > > I am looking to purchase a laptop, but being very, > very, very, poor, I > > can not afford anything close to a modern system. > As a result, I have > > been looking for refurbished laptops at the very > low end of the scale, > > ranging around $100 to $200. As a result, the only > laptops I have been > > able to find are very low end, ranging from 486 to > Pentium 133 and with > > ram ranging from 8 MB to 16 MB, along with hard > drives that barely reach > > 1-2 GB. > > > > From my past readings regarding Linux, I have > read that Linux requires > > very little in the way of hardware to run fast and > smoothly. Many of my > > readings at the time, indicated that a 486 system > with 8 MB was more > > than sufficient to run a Linux system. From what I > have read, a system > > that would appear slow in Windows 95, as a result > of old and dated > > hardware, would become amazingly fast in Linux. > This being the case, I > > believed that Linux would be an excellent choice > of OS to install on an > > old and dated laptop. > > > > I will be using the system for mainly two tasks: > as a learning ground > > for Linux and web page design. I am just a newbie > when it comes to web > > page design, however I can code very simple pages > using HTML, CSS, and a > > very simple text editor, such as Notepad on > Windows. This being the > > case, for a Linux system, I would need a text > editor similar to Notepad > > along with browsers, such as IE or Netscape. I > have used Pico a great > > deal in the past, however that was only in the > shell. Since I wish to > > practice making web pages in a graphical > environment, believe I will > > have to use the Linux GUI. > > > > In regards to the Linux GUI, I really have no idea > what the difference > > is between X, KDE, and Gnome. However, I have read > that running these > > "applications" increases the hardware requirements > on the Linux system. > > > > Now taking into account the above, what kind of > system would you recommend? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com