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From: john.r.avery on 17 Jan 2010 16:54
Hey.

I'm a generally experience Unix/Solaris sysadmin; I've been messing w/
Linux off & on for a few years and I took a 4-day RHEL admin course
about 2 years ago at a time when I couldn't do anything with it
outside the class (long story).

Right now, I'm looking for a good & inexpensive system to purchase for
home, to install RHEL and play with it, following that RHEL-admin
course-manual & other stuff; maybe eventually leading to getting a
RHEL cert.

Can somebody recommend one or more inexpensive & reliable & versatile
PCs that I can get off ebay for this purpose? By "inexpensive", I'm
ideally meaning no more than about $300, though maybe that's
unrealistic. By "versatile", I mean something that would allow me to
add peripherals, such as external RAID-arrays, or multi-disk devices
to which software-RAID could be applied, and/or maybe an external
tape-
drive, etc. The "reliable" part should be obvious.

Also, is it foolish of me to consider purchasing some sort of rack-
mountable system --such as a Dell PowerEdge 2950 or 2650-- given that
I have no rack in which to put it? Any recommendations on a
particular ebay store from which to buy a home-system for RHEL,
whether a blade or not?

Thanks!

--JRAvery
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