I don’t have dreams of building a killer Linux box…

Ok, I do, but who can afford to build the Operton AMD 64 with 2GB of memory and an nVidia whatever max card they put out this week and Slack 10 and an actual working version of Wine…

I figured in the meantime, I could make a little side cash by building simple systems to perform simple functions. A basic PC that allows you to check email, surf the net, play CDs and DVDs, play a few games, and use Office type functions. I also wanted to add a restore button that makes fixing it very simple.

Interesting to say the least. I figure with a good install of Slack without any choices for office, or players, that it would be a pretty straightforward system to use. In other words:

Xine to play CDs and DVDs
OpenOfiice 1.1.2
Galeon (I’m mad at Firefox right now and Mozilla is way more than needed)
Calypso for email
Frozen Bubble and all kinds of games…

A tower can be built for about $200. a really small box can be built for about $425. Neither one of these includes a monitor, though.

Anywho, random thoughts today going through my head. I’m not disconnected from yesterday’s post at all, I wrote a private journal on some other things, but I’ll have something to say about all that later tonight.