$160 Xubuntu platform

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

Posted by George on 03/08/08 at 12:09 PM
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