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In article <3tpkqa$32m@news.dgsys.com>, EggYolk <andy@minuteman.com> wrote:
>		   ... I'm going to buy a computer and run Linux ...
>							 ...  Are there any 
>special considerations I should take when choosing a computer?  ...

Unless you're planning to download everything over the 'Net, I suggest
that you FIRST go to Micro Center, Computer Literacy Bookstore, or even
Borders Books; get a copy of the Linux distribution you'll be using
(Slackware is often highly recommended), and also a copy of one of the
big compilations of Linux docs - Dr. Linux, or the Linux Bible, or one
of the others.  Go through the various hardware documents and note what
hardware is recommended.  Then, when you're looking at hardware from
various places, be sure to take along a hardcopy of said
recommendations.

I would also have mentioned The Computer Place in Gaithersburg, except
that to most NoVans, that seems incredibly far away.  (It's really you
all that are incredibly far away, of course [;-)].)

-- 
Joe Yao				jsdy@cais.com - Joseph S. D. Yao