Best distro for me

Streams · 11-25-2002, 02:21 AM

What do you think the best distro for my system would be?

Duron 900
20GB Quantum Fireball
10GB Seagate Barracuda
256MB RAM
Sony DVD 12X
Cyber Driver CD Writer 8x4x32x
Radeon 7500 64DDR

I've had big problems trying to get my radeon to work correctly in Mandrake 9.0 and I dont want to go there again. So what distro do you suggest?

Thanks for the input

Streams

rootboy · 11-25-2002, 03:30 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Streams
What do you think the best distro for my system would be?

Duron 900
20GB Quantum Fireball
10GB Seagate Barracuda
256MB RAM
Sony DVD 12X
Cyber Driver CD Writer 8x4x32x
Radeon 7500 64DDR

I've had big problems trying to get my radeon to work correctly in Mandrake 9.0 and I dont want to go there again. So what distro do you suggest?

Thanks for the input

Streams

I'm a big fan of SuSE.

John

Streams · 11-25-2002, 03:59 AM

Will that work well with my Radeon 7500? using XFree86 4

acid_kewpie · 11-25-2002, 06:14 AM

you have an extremely average system, any distro is likely to work fine. please search this site for a billions identical threads,

rootboy · 11-25-2002, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Streams
Will that work well with my Radeon 7500? using XFree86 4

According to SuSE it should:

http://www.suse.com/us/private/produ...uirements.html

I'd prefer a bit more hz's under the hood, 900Mhz is probably going to be a bit sluggish (I have a 1.4 and I'm ready to upgrade). But it'll be fine.

Head on over to www.cheapbytes.com for some cheap CD's. That way you can try out SuSE (or a number of other distros) and decide if you like it before shelling out the big bucks (if you buy the boxed sets).

John

Tinkster · 11-25-2002, 02:44 PM

heh ...

Funny how many nerds (nerdlings)
are trying to impress people with the
size of their ... :}

"What do you mean ... Viagra ... I need the Antidot!"

Cheers,
TInk

Streams · 11-25-2002, 02:57 PM

I found MDK to be very zippy on the duron. Is just that my Radeon only worked at 50hz with the generic vesa driver so I want to try another distro.

Streams · 11-25-2002, 06:49 PM

I think I will stick with MDK now as my Radeon is working! turns out all I had to do was disconnect the TV out and It worked perfectly.

rootboy · 11-28-2002, 02:39 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tinkster
heh ...

Funny how many nerds (nerdlings)
are trying to impress people with the
size of their ... :}

"What do you mean ... Viagra ... I need the Antidot!"

Cheers,
TInk

At 1.4Ghz, I'm feeling a bit inadequate...

John

rootboy · 11-28-2002, 02:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Streams
I think I will stick with MDK now as my Radeon is working! turns out all I had to do was disconnect the TV out and It worked perfectly.

Cool

John

Tinkster · 11-28-2002, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by rootboy
At 1.4Ghz, I'm feeling a bit inadequate... :)

John

LOL ... my primary workstation is a 266MHz notebook :P

Cheers,
Tink

KenHan · 11-30-2002, 06:55 AM

slackware!!

//KenHan