Purchasing a Linux PC

[Sharif Oerton]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:36:25AM +1030, Adam Hawes wrote:

> 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.

I agree with the RAM part - definitely get as much as is reasonable.
However, I ran Ubuntu (6.06) for ~eighteen months sharing a 20 gig
disk with Windows ME (which was only there because I needed Windows
for school, so no snide remarks please :)). It all depends on what the
computer will be used for - if you have a large collection of
multimedia then you will want a large hard disk, however otherwise you
should be fine with any hard disk on the market today (which as Adam
said start at about 80 gig). 

Sharif