[PLUG] Appliance Computer Distro? Cheap computers?

[John Purser]

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John Purser

On 1/23/06, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
>
> A friend recently suffered a computer roasting, and needs another.
> All she uses the computer for is web browsing and email from her
> AOL account (which I assume can be accessed via a web browser).
> No word processor, spreadsheet, anything.  All she would even need
> a hard-drive for is to hold her web bookmarks and preferences,
> and ISP connection information;  otherwise she could just boot
> from a CD.
>
> I could pungle up a Linux machine that boots into Firefox, but
> that means I have another machine to maintain.  A distro that
> does nothing but Firefox and the programs necessary to support it,
> (automatically downloading Java and Flash and Acroread and all the
> other proprietary nonsense during install) would be great for an
> application like this, especially if the install was obsequeously
> simplified.  Does anybody know of such a distro?
>
> Also - a good place to buy $50 800MHz-ish machines is the Tektronix
> surplus store, but they are open only a couple of days a month,
> and it will be another month before I can get there.  Freegeek
> doesn't sell whole systems from their retail store.  Wacky Willies
> isn't doing retail any more.  Any other suggestions for places
> that sell very inexpensive used PCs?
>
> Keith
>
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