[sudo-discuss] recommendations for vps for beginning hacker/coder

[Ed Biow]

Jake, I have about 30 or so machines that somehow missed being shipped
out in our shipment to Haiti last Spring (miscommunication with my
comrades). They are a mix of *buntu 16.04 (beta at that point), 14.04 &
Debian Jessie, mostly PIVs or of similar vintage, configured for French,
but I would change that and update the box, if he is interested. 1-2 GB
RAM. Not very sexy, but certainly adequate to practice coding and learn
Linux, surf the net, do word processing, muck with basic multimedia,
etc.. I also have a few LCD monitors & whatnot. A lot of these machines
are the Dells that Daniel provided, but there are some Athlons, etc.

I'm not sure when there will be another shipment abroad, so if anyone
else needs an older desktop computer just get my attention.

e

On 12/13/2016 01:26 PM, Jake wrote:
> my friend Christopher is trying to learn linux and coding of various
> kinds, but
> he doesn't have a computer that he can install software onto, so i'm
> recommending that he get a VPS somewhere, install linux on it, and play
> with
> web stuff and use it as his computer until he can get his own hardware
> back.
> 
> is linode a good choice?  i'm not sure if he has funds to pay
> subscription fees
> or whether he would need to find a free one, or maybe he can get started
> with a
> digitalocean free giftcard if someone has one.
> 
> anyway, pipe up if you have recommendations for him.
> 
> thanks,
> -jake
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