[ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.

[Simon Greenwood]

On 10 June 2011 09:49, Dave Hanson <dave at hansonforensics.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks Simon - very interested!
>
> Exactly what speed/core processor do they have in?
>
> Dave
> On Jun 10, 2011 9:40 AM, "Simon Greenwood" <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hanson <dave at hansonforensics.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Morning all,
> >>
> >> I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run
> web
> >> server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core processor
> and a
> >> gig or so of ram < £120, the rest i can beg borrow and steal.
> >>
> >> It should obviously be compatible with Ubuntu & so does anyone have any
> >> recommendations as to anywhere else to pick one up?
> >>
> >> I'm also open to charitable donations in the Leeds area! :-P
> >>
> >
> > I'm in the Leeds area and have a couple of Xeon machines on eBay at the
> > moment:
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310323874379
> > and http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310323874270
> >
> > I don't expect them to get a lot so it might be worth bidding (sorry if
> this
> > contravenes any guidelines by the way)
> >
> > For that matter, HP do occasionally sell the more recent version of those
> > servers for very cheap, probably less than a good barebones package at
> > Maplin.
> >
>

They're Xeon 2.33Ghz so two cores (but not dual core). They have both been
running Ubuntu until recently.

Alan's Ebuyer deal sounds quite good though.

s/

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