If you purchase a new bare to the bone computer with a clean hard disk and no existing user data applications or configuration settings what kind of installation will perform?

Answer 1

Caution when shopping for bare bones systems. Many are stripped of essential hardware as well, such as preinstalled RAM, Hard Drive, DVD/CD Drive, Video Card,

CPU Chip, keyboard and mouse. These have to be purchased and installed by you separately, meaning more cost and points of mistakes and failures. Don't

forget the missing cables and connectors as well. And even though you are possibly buying all this as "new", you are not getting the original OEMs warantee or guarantee either. Sometimes to save a bit, it makes more sense to buy refurbished, because those are complete assemblies and tested out.

But if you are in earnest about going with just the hardware and adding the software, your best deal on software is undoubtedly one of the many free distributions of Linux that can be obtained online. There are several favoritesw, and the one I like best isw Ubuntu. You get the LiveCD version of any of these, and you can just try it from the DVD/CD drive, oir install it from there as easily. These distros, as they are called, are not just a free operating system, but they come with a whole bunch of user applications already tucked in. And there are always more if these don't satisfy you, all absolutely free to download, install, and use.These are big downloads, and you can often find preburned CDs on sale online and even on eBay that save you hours of download time for just a few dollars, because an honest distributor cannot charge you for the software on the CD, just for the act of burning it to CD and delivering it to you, so a CD may only coast you $5 or less. Sound incredible? This is the nature of the Open Source movement. So it would not cost you too much to try several distros if you like.