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I have been an avid windows user for the past 6+ years and have become more and more interested in Linux. To start out, I have an old NEC versa laptop, running at 75 mhz, 24 Mb ram, 1Mb video ram, a 56k modem, network, 340Mb HD, and floppy. Furthermore, I have a CD-Rom that connects via parallel port, but can only use it once a DOS session has started. My question is, what release of linux would be best suited for my circumstances. I know this system is slow, but I believe it would be a good start.
I have been an avid windows user for the past 6+ years and have become more and more interested in Linux. To start out, I have an old NEC versa laptop, running at 75 mhz, 24 Mb ram, 1Mb video ram, a 56k modem, network, 340Mb HD, and floppy. Furthermore, I have a CD-Rom that connects via parallel port, but can only use it once a DOS session has started. My question is, what release of linux would be best suited for my circumstances. I know this system is slow, but I believe it would be a good start.
Thanks
Mike Swanson
you should try a smaller distro or a base install of maybe an older version of a main poplular distro as first you don't have much space.. i wouldn't recommend putting the gui X on there as it would be to slow.. you can easily get a command line easily on there though, maybe trying tiny linux or maybe peanut linux which are very small distros.. you can find more at www.linux.org
they might be a little harder to get working than a regular mainstream distro, but you would learn alot during the process.
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