What is the best place to buy a custom Linux box?

[jasong]

I don't have a lot of money(about $200), so if I can find a place that builds custom computers and is willing to install Linux on it, that would be great. Better yet, they can sell it with an empty hard drive so I can save money by installing Linux myself.

Does anyone know of a place that will do this? Will retail stores like Best Buy or Dell cater to decisions like this?

[QIbHom]

I'm missing something, perhaps, but why not build it yourself? A US$200 budget is a bit tough, but if you follow sales and rebates, in a couple months you should have all the manditory bits.

[jasong]

Originally posted by QIbHom
I'm missing something, perhaps, but why not build it yourself? A US$200 budget is a bit tough, but if you follow sales and rebates, in a couple months you should have all the manditory bits.
I read that, and then I had a thought that I didn't have the other 10-million times I read a similar idea.

If you have hardware to test hardware, it doesn't have to be top-of-the-line, it just has to work. Also, since EVERYTHING I do on the Internet is for my amusement and only benefits the owners of DC projects, there's nothing preventing me from cannabalizing my own computer to do stuff, ike testing a second computer. My grandmother has a computer that I can use for the message boards. Also, I trust my grandmother not to utilize a cookie in a way that tarnishes my name, so I can have sign-ins on her computer go through autotically.

Tomorrow afternoon, I'm going to get my dad to help me document what I have that works, so I can figure out what I need.

Thanks guys. I'll show my dad the "trained technician" who was so tech-savvy in the 80s that he was hired to help spy on the Russians(and now refuses to help me refurbish my computers because his lack of knowerledge frustrates him) what a DCer with some motivation can do.

Can anybody point me to a website, so I can ID what each component in my computer does?

[LAURENU2]

Originally posted by jasong
I don't have a lot of money(about $200), so if I can find a place that builds custom computers and is willing to install Linux on it, that would be great. Better yet, they can sell it with an empty hard drive so I can save money by installing Linux myself.

Does anyone know of a place that will do this? Will retail stores like Best Buy or Dell cater to decisions like this?

Jason You asked the same questions in this Thread a day or so ago http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=92302#post92302 I gave you a link where you could get a 2200 sempron PC all setup with CD flopy HD Ram 128 MB and perloaded with linspire 4.5 all that for 159.00
Why make 2 threads for the same question

[Dreamer]

Lauren,

Those sure are some great deals!!!!
I gotta talk to my Dad about getting the windows box. I was going to suggest Dell to him... My bad...

I've never worked with Linux before, but have been wanting to. I have an OLD Pentium system (p1-150mhz) with 32MB of ram... Not sure that would even be worth the electricity to set-up to crunch on. I know that Linux is supposed to work faster, but, this one is probably too old to do very much...

[GHOST]

steve (http://homepage.mac.com/chinasaur/switchlinux3.swf) might have some.

:crazy:

[Fozzie]

Love the anim Ghost.

Gotta get me some of those fembots :p