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I'll be buying a new machine sometime next week, and the first thing that I
plan to do is drop Win98 for Linux. There are a couple of machines that I'm
looking at that fall in my price range, and I'm looking for a little advice.

One seems to be a generic type thing, tower with a bunch of goodies.
The other is a HP Pavilion. Don't know the model number, but it's rather
recent.

If I could, I'd go for the generic one, simply because it may save me from
some sort of proprietary device that Linux may not know about. The Pavilion
is also a desktop model, which, once upon a time, was a bad thing (not
anymore, though, since it's got everything that I could want already
inside).

I guess that I'm looking for people who might be running Linux on an HP
Pavilion, to hear if they've got any stories to tell. I'd rather go for
option number one, but there's only one left in the shop, and it may be
gone before I get back to it.

Thanks in advance for any help that you may have for me.

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James Clifford         | http://www.tripod.com/~MrBobo

Quote:>I'll be buying a new machine sometime next week, and the first thing that I
>plan to do is drop Win98 for Linux. There are a couple of machines that I'm
>looking at that fall in my price range, and I'm looking for a little advice.
>One seems to be a generic type thing, tower with a bunch of goodies.
>The other is a HP Pavilion. Don't know the model number, but it's rather
>recent.

mp

Quote:

>I'll be buying a new machine sometime next week, and the first thing that I
>plan to do is drop Win98 for Linux. There are a couple of machines that I'm
>looking at that fall in my price range, and I'm looking for a little advice.

>One seems to be a generic type thing, tower with a bunch of goodies.
>The other is a HP Pavilion. Don't know the model number, but it's rather
>recent.

>If I could, I'd go for the generic one, simply because it may save me from
>some sort of proprietary device that Linux may not know about. The Pavilion
>is also a desktop model, which, once upon a time, was a bad thing (not
>anymore, though, since it's got everything that I could want already
>inside).

>I guess that I'm looking for people who might be running Linux on an HP
>Pavilion, to hear if they've got any stories to tell. I'd rather go for
>option number one, but there's only one left in the shop, and it may be
>gone before I get back to it.

You may also want to consider the possibility of getting a box mail
order or at a computer show; there are plenty of places that will
custom-build a machine to your specs, at a very attractive price.
Also, if you buy a prepacked HP system, you'll probably be paying
extra for a Microsoft OS that you won't even be using.

DISCLAIMER - I haven't bought anything from either of these companies. I
don't work for either of them either. I just saw their Web sites.

John

 >If you don't want Winbloze at all, try getting your new system from
 >http://www.linux-hw.com They'll sell you a  PII/ 266 with a 3.2GB hd
and
 >RedHat Linux already installed for under $1000 according to their
web site.
 >Can't hurt to look, can it? Also, LSL http://www.lsl.com is
advertising a
 >Linux system for under $1000 as well. http://www.lsl.com . Their
system is a
 >64Mb, 8.4 Gb HD, 300Mhz AMD. Why pay *anything* to Microsoft?
 >
 >DISCLAIMER - I haven't bought anything from either of these
companies. I
 >don't work for either of them either. I just saw their Web sites.
 >
 >John

Might as well tack on VA research: http://www.varesearch.com/.