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^^^ Both of those are good ideas, too...J Corp posted:I recently went to college orientation, and one of the big recommendations people in my major had was "learn linux". The girl giving me the tour of my future classrooms was talking about how linux was used quite a bit and it was really difficult for her trying to pick it up while the class was using it. I'm being dead serious here, go to Goodwill or your local university and see if you can't get an old computer from the turn of the century. It doesn't really need anything beyond a few gigs of hard drive space and, if you want to use standard Ubuntu, a decent amount of RAM (I forget the specifics). I've been able to get a P3 450mhz with 256mb of RAM running nicely for demonstration purposes (just don't expect to open up 40 tabs in Firefox without stupid amounts of swapping). I even got a P1 120mhz with a 500mb hard drive(!) running Debian with a barebones X11/fluxbox setup and a few rudimentary apps. You can even just combine it with the advice above and just salvage the harddrive. For demo purposes I see more than 5-10gig superfluous.
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