[PLUG] Pennywise Portable Penguin Power?

[FloydLJohnsonIII@aol.com]

(sorry about the kitschy subject line)
 
I have in mind to get a secondhand laptop for the purpose of using an  office 
suite (I've used OpenOffice before, and am unsure if there's a KDE office  
suite), Apache, MySQL, PHP, JDK, and good old g++. (Imagine writing a book and  
developing a game based on it.) I MIGHT get an 802.11 rig to 'net at a  coffee 
shop. (I could download the software while having a second latte.)
 
To do so cheaply:
 
1) What is the least expensive configuration (CPU, RAM, wireless  adapter) 
and is web/mail-order de riguer?
2) Which distro can handle said configuration without complaining? (It's  
been my experience that Mandrake Move demands 128MB of RAM, for instance.)
 
Auxiliary question: If I do go for Wi-Fi, where is the Fine Manual  for the 
most secure (and therefore correct) way to configure it?
 
TIA,
 
Floyd
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