Hello all.

I'm shortly going to be putting one of our work laptops on to Ebay, if any of you are interested. It does not run Windows at all (it simply won't install), so it is being sold with Fedora Core 6.

The laptop hardware is a Dell Latitude C540. It has a Pentium 3 800MHz CPU, 256MB RAM, and a 20GB HDD. It comes with a CD/RW drive and a power pack, but not a laptop carry case. Sorry.

I'll post the link on here whenever I can.

Wow, that's low spec, what price you looking at?

I'd be happy to get ?30 out of it. I put a bid on a laptop not much higher spec than this, and it ended up going for ?255. So I could be surprised..

I migth even forward the link to Inq and see what they say. They might plop up an article about popularity of open-source shizm. They might not. I doubt they would. I remember them plopping up an article before though, when I found the first Quad-SLI graphics cards I am so cool.

Hmm, well the world is full of gullible fools! And I doubt INQ would put up an article about some guys cheapass laptop. Quad-SLi was an important discovery!

I can't even get FC6 on to that laptop properly! I just left work while it was at a 98% install so hopefully it will be up and running tomorrow morning. Just a little bit of configuration to do on it, I hope. It had a kernel panic earlier.. saying it couldn't read part of the hard drive.

Linux stuff always messes up the Kernal... My one did....Tho was jst a heap of parts attached to a monitor....

Well, to be fair, Linux IS free...

[url=http://www.fedoraproject.org/]Fedora Core[/url] is pretty decent because it's backed by [url=http://www.redhat.com/]Red Hat[/url], an/'The' Open Source leader.

Yeah, still, it's free, so can't expect it to be perfect. What's worrying in Window's is worse...

The laptop is now working great! I am typing this message on the newly installed FC6

It's running very smoothly indeed. I'm just doing a full package update and making sure sound/video are OK.

Edit: A few hours later, it goes on Ebay! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=001

That's good. I'm putting my bets on 50quid tops.

Someone just satisfied the 99p bid!
Whatever it goes for... the money is all mine. Work are good like that. Well, when I go behind their backs.

Did you steel the laptop from your work?

Naa, it's an old one. The warranty has expired and it's not got an asset tag, so we're letting this one slip.

Ah, I see, OK. They probably won't care.

Indeed. They are quite interested to see what sort of price it will go for. I might be good and donate money to charity... I need money right now though, for the new flat.

Ah, I see, would be interesting to know how gullible people are...

Gullible!? The laptop is total pwnage. It runs much faster with Fedora Core 6 on there than it ever did with Windows 98 SE on there. It's very reliable.

I am using Fedora Core 6 as my desktop operating system more and more these days. I only come on to Windows to use my webcam and audio features, because the support under Linux is very poor.

Here's a similar spec laptop, but it has a broken screen. It is starting at ?40: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-Latitude-C60 ... dZViewItem

Here's another very similarly spec'd out laptop, going for ?93.05 with ?20 delivery: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-latitude-c60 ... dZViewItem

Again, a very similar spec laptop, starting at ?150 with ?18 delivery: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-C600-Latitud ... dZViewItem

So, I'm starting to get my hopes up a little bit!

Still... my listing stands at 99p, and it's selling for that, too.

OMFG, rip offs!

Crazy eh!?
Expecting around ?50 for this.

LOL, cool, that's far too much, lol!

It's currently going for ?1.04

Wow, that's a lot!

It's currently going for ?51.