interested in buying cheap linux laptop
Erik Price
eprice at ptc.com
Fri Jul 25 09:41:56 EDT 2003
Hi folks,
I don't have much familiarity with PC hardware, but I'd like to purchase
a cheap (used, etc) machine to run Linux on. Since it's for [personal]
development only, my only performance requirement is that it be capable
of running a relatively recent Linux with X11 and the development tools
(GNU, Perl, Python, J2SDK), and hopefully Eclipse (but I can use emacs
if Eclipse demands too much). I'm emphasizing affordability over
performance. Specifically I'd like to try out the Oracle 9i for Linux
that was distributed on CD ROM at the quarterly meeting this week, and
the Oracle application server that came with it.
I prefer a laptop simply because space is scarce and I move around a
lot, and also so that I can bring it to work (one thing I'd like to do
is see how easy/difficult it is to migrate my JBoss/Postgres-using
project to Oracle). Again, this machine would service no clients except
maybe from one other computer for testing (so it doesn't need to have
the hardware to actually run as a server).
Are there any recommendations for area stores that sell decent used
merchandise, or other hidden deals? I'm hoping I can find something for
only a couple hundred bucks, but let me know if that's simply unrealistic.
Thanks,
Erik
PS: also I'm thinking of going with Red Hat since, from what I gathered
the other night, that'll probably interoperate the most smoothly with
Oracle software. Any thoughts on this are welcome too.
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