$160 Xubuntu platform
March 8, 2008
I have an old computer that blew some caps on the motherboard. Webs sent me a link to this Tiger Direct combo deal. It’s a motherboard, AMD-64 cpu, and 1gig memory that came out to $128 including the shipping. After rebates it goes down to $100, plus $10 for a heat sink and $50 for a new power supply so that’s $160. The CD burner and hard drive were OK and I didn’t bother hooking up the floppy drive.
Then I installed 32-bit Xubuntu which seems to be considerably faster than straight Ubuntu. Next is to experiment with the Xsane scanning application and see how well Xubuntu supports a Canon scanner.
Updates:
- I only have two killer apps in Windows, and one is the Notepad++ editor. The lack of a Linux version is a real downer for me but I’ve been experimenting with Bluefish and it ain’t bad. In fact I might get to like it a lot. Although it is not as minimalist as NP++ it does seem well suited to working with .html and .css
Categories: Geeky
Bluefish looks pretty badass. I will have to take a looks at it.
How’s everything else going with the system?