What kind of computer is best for studying Linux, and how much would it cost?
The first step is to see if your existing computer is suitable. Chances are that it is. This is because one of the features of Linux is that it can run on a very wide range of hardware, not only on computers with Intel processors (i.e., x86) but also on Macs and virtually everything else. Some older computers do not have sufficient memory or hard disk capacity to run Linux with a GUI, but usually they can still be used to run a command line version of your favorite Linux distribution (i.e., version), such as Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat (Fedora), SuSE or Ubuntu. As an example of what would be needed to run Linux with a GUI, Red Hat 7.2 (which is an older but still useful version of Red Hat) recommends a minimum of a 200MHz Pentium microprocessor, 2.5GB of hard disk drive (HDD) space (plus additional space for file storage) and 96MB of RAM (random access memory). 4.5GB of hard disk space is recommended for full installation, but full installation is usually not necessary because it include
