Screaming Penguin

This is in response to some complaints I have received from friends of mine who read ToTSP. "Well to have a Linux box, I either have to buy a new computer, or sacrafice hard drive space." For me I can easily spare the space on my WD expert 18.1 (shameless plug), but for others, that is not an option. Linux performs much better on lower-end hardware than does WinXX, and really cheap AMD/Cyrix packages can be found. A place I shop alot is usatechdirect.com (they actually have an office in Atlanta -- Technology Renaissance). For instance, K6-2/400, 8.4GB, 64MB, 36x, modem, 15" moniter package for $599.00 (TAK400D). And you can find good deals like this all over the place. So go ahead, pick up that K6-2 system, go to cheapbytes.com and get your $1.99 RH6.0 CD, and you are running the worlds most powerful server + most configurable OS for under $1000. (Lets see what the price would be for NT -- $2000 for decent hardware + $2600 for backoffice + lets hope you dont need a lot of client licenses = HUGE RIPOFF)