Purchasing a Linux PC

[Adam Hawes]

Hi,

> Do any of you know if this PC will be too stripped down to be worth the
> effort? I have not wanted to waste my money on the new Vista OS because I
> have never liked MS Windows since version 3.0. I realize that Vista is a
> total roadhog when it comes to memory and hard drive space and that Linux
> products do not have this problem. If I have to build a new PC for Ubuntu,
> then I will. I also like the idea of loading Ubuntu on a thumb drive and
> have it bootable. In fact, my ultimate goal is to do away with all hard
> drives and use thumb drives for everything if I can.
>
> I only use my PC for browsing the Internet, genealogy, sending emails and
> maintaining my different websites. I do not care anything for gaming or
> weird stuff.

Without looking at the link:  any modern CPU is fine to run Linux as a desktop 
machine.  Just be warned that you'll probably want to back off a little bit 
of the eye candy that Ubuntu is starting to install.  Xubuntu is really light 
and will run on lesser machines than what you are looking at.

Memory and disk space are your biggest concerns.  Put as much RAM in it as you 
can afford and the biggest disk.  1G is good, but these days 2G doesn't go 
astray.

With Ubuntu I rekon you need about 10G of disk for a full install with all the 
extra nice goodies (KDE/GNOME, and other tools you like).  You'll want double 
that so you have room to expand and then you'll want space for your personal 
files as well - I don't know how much you're likely to need.  Since 80G disks 
are about the smallest I've seen in the mainstream lately you should be 
right.

A