[TriLUG] rfc on motherboard for anti-establishment pc

[matusiak]

plenty of low cost (and even some free) hardware in here, if you need  
to replace a damaged machine.

    http://photo.matusiak.org/for_sale/free.html

    http://photo.matusiak.org/for_sale/


or you could just go for the 911 carrera and not worry about linux  
anymore.

    http://photo.matusiak.org/for_sale/carrera996/


good luck!
d.m.



> recently, i dropped my anti-establishment pc (non-intel and
> non-microsoft system) en route to the open source lab at exploris.  it
> hit the sidewalk rather hard and fried the motherboard or  
> processor.  i
> really need to buy a new pc since it is a few years old yet spent way
> too much money prior to dec 31 to reduce tax liability and am low on
> $$$.  repair is inevitable.
>
> so, my request for comment is as follows:
>
> does anyone have a recommendation on a replacement motherboard/ 
> processor
> that takes the old 512 MB SDRAM and IDE hard drive?  currently, the
> motherboard is MSI and processor is AMD Athlon.  am i better off
> chunking the old one and chocking it up to experience?
>
> better yet, if someone has a beater machine they want to donate to
> exploris and take a tax write off, i can donate my parts to beef it  
> up.
> then, we can leave our ubuntu machine in the server room online at 45
> Mbps for the open source lab to use.
>
> regards,
>
> jim