techSunday, January 16, 2005
Built a new computer
Used Pentium 550 system: $155 at a used computer store
Old 14" monitor: $7 at a local Thrift Store
Old Keyboard: $5 at same Thrift Store
Not using MS Windows: Priceless
Gentoo linux: free and compiled from source code
Gentoo takes a while to install because everything is compiled locally. But it's a pretty good linux distribution - it's pretty easy to manage and everything.
Old 14" monitor: $7 at a local Thrift Store
Old Keyboard: $5 at same Thrift Store
Not using MS Windows: Priceless
Gentoo linux: free and compiled from source code
Gentoo takes a while to install because everything is compiled locally. But it's a pretty good linux distribution - it's pretty easy to manage and everything.
