what do you think is the best linux distro to use
 

I have a computer with a flaky 5GB hard drive and 64 MB of ram and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions besides Deli, Debian or Fedora? what distro do you like?

For that size disk/ram you would be looking at Debian/Slackware/Gentoo but definitely not running KDE or Gnome - use Fluxbox or similar lightweight wm. Also try Puppy or Damn Small.

You are asking this in the Debian forum... so you know what answer you expect... LOL...:study:

Debian is *quite* another distro as compared to Red Hat. Red Hat is complete, and installs a complete enviromnent. Almost a no-brainer and mimicks Windoze: insert CD -> wait 45 minutes -> PC ready. (Which is not my preference, but nevertheless an admirable achievement)

The advantage of Debian is that it is completely customizable to your needs and your limitations like HW platform.

I don think is goes as far as Damn Small Linux or Linux From Scratch, but you might not need such a stripped installation.

Now the point: I agree that 64 MB RAM is not much for running KDE. Try a lighweight windows manager, I heard that icewm is quite lite and fast and yet gives a look and feel most people are accustomed to. I think Linux console will run on everything with 64 MB RAM, bit it is the window manager which makes a big difference when you need a GUI.

jlinkels

---EDIT---
Now I see it was the general distro forum where you posted this... just went up one step to much in the tree... oh well... I am still a supporter of Debian.

I have ran KDE with that much ran and Gnome with less, I think 23 mb of ram, and they were slow so I agree on that point

LFS to build your own personal distro from source.

I do not have a working linux system right now but it is the raid that is scaring me, this computer has a 3 disk raid 0

Oh, sorry I didn't actually read your question just the thread title and then the poll, and just assumed....

Anyway about you hardware any linux distro will do, just don't expect to use gnome or kde, choose a lighter DE/window manager eg xfce, fluxbox or enlightenment