Build me a cheap linux machine

[lRhyss]

Can someone build me a cheap as chips pc to run linux. I'll be using it for networking shizzle, so it doesn't need to be awesome. I managed to build one for £115, someone try and get it lower pls.

Amazon prime links to parts preferably pls

[scottish]

r-pi

[j0rd]

Edited by: James (Forum Moderator), Please do not post off topic/pointless post, thanks!

[lRhyss]

r-pi

I'm trying to get a legit pc because i wanna be able to piss about with it when im done with it

thank u for winning the forum for the day.


might just buy a **** £30 pc from ebay

[scottish]

you can piss about with r-pi once you're done

[mrwoooooooo]

nuva vote for pi 2

[lRhyss]

you can piss about with r-pi once you're done

nuva vote for pi 2

I've just bought a makey makey so i suppose i could get a pi too

[Chippiewill]

The economics of building a PC don't apply to the £115 mark. At that point OEMs have a distinct advantage with mass orders and ability to integrate multiple low power parts into the same package. Raspberry Pi is your best bet, if you're primarily concerned about networking then get a router which can run DD-WRT or similar. You might also want to look into other single board computers nearer your price mark than the Pi like the firefly (http://www.t-firefly.com/en/firenow/firefly_rk3288/)

[lRhyss]

The economics of building a PC don't apply to the £115 mark. At that point OEMs have a distinct advantage with mass orders and ability to integrate multiple low power parts into the same package. Raspberry Pi is your best bet, if you're primarily concerned about networking then get a router which can run DD-WRT or similar. You might also want to look into other single board computers nearer your price mark than the Pi like the firefly (http://www.t-firefly.com/en/firenow/firefly_rk3288/)

I've ordered a PI 2 and an embedded ARM board, went off building a pc after coming to senses, figured it was a little silly (I just enjoy building computers haha). Plus I'm doing Embedded Systems and AI in my final year so I figured getting the embedded board would be a good investment too. we have a Trendnet router that can run DD-WRT, don't worry I already took this into account!

[Chippiewill]

Well if I knew you were going to get an embedded board too I would have made some more suggestions, bit late now but hopefully you got an mbed one alternatively FPGAs are pretty damn cool too.