Linux grass platforms

[Grass 4.1]

Hello,

We are moving to install grass on a pc running linux.  I would like
some advice from those who have succeeded in doing this.  

What platform are you running on?

Do you have a dedicated PC or an additional external disk with linux
separate from your dos disk?

What will be my hardware and software requirements to get a working
grass gis on a pc running linux?

These are the questions I can think of now.  Any other information
you can lend me would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

-Stephen Dzurenko
 Ocean Mapping Division
 Ocean Technology Center 
 Graduate School of Oceanography
 University of Rhode Island

 ph: 401 792-6879
 fx: 401 792-6849
 e-mail: steve at ocean.oce.uri.edu