Mobo got hosed. Any recommendation?

[debiani386]

Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hello all,
> My old and loyal desktop PC at home got hosed recently after years of 
> servicing my - sometimes "brutal" - experiments on it. It's a Gigabyte GA7xx  
> something (VIA chipset) with AMD Athlon 1GHz.
>
> I'm looking for a replacement. Something very economical in terms of pricing 
> and it should be very friendly with Linux. And as a "nice to have" feature is 
> preferably the display adapter will be able to run Beryl.
>
> Any recommendations are welcome :)
> Thank you.
>   
the cheapest computer that i know of that works good with ubuntu (all 
the hardware works) is the one im using (Emachines t3516).

The Pros: its cheap, most of teh required hardware is integrated into 
the motherboard

the mediocres: a 110 gig hdd (which is good enough for ubuntu, but its 
kinda small for  big gamers)

the cons: its a celeron proc, has 128mb shared ram, comes with 512mb 
ram, and it comes preinstalled with winblows

--cj