applecheeks,
I would recommend Debian since it's an older system. Ubuntu is great, but it's by default a little graphics heavy, and you definitely want to stay away from the Red Hat derivatives (CentOS, Fedora); they are very graphics heavy by default. Debian's x86 installer will work for your 486, as it's an all inclusive x86 kernel. It will also allow you to install a lightweight x-windows-manager like XFCE. Of course, Ubuntu has LXDE, which would provide the same lightweight feel. I will say, however, Debian is not for the faint of heart. I've been using Debian for 10 years, and it's like that hot girl/boyfriend that you have the volatile relationship with; when it's good, it's really good, but if it get's bad, it can get really bad. Good luck to you and welcome to LQ.org. HTH, |
is there a quick way to showing you guys my system information? can i enter some sort of line into the terminal and get the information needeD?
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lshw -short ...Anyway, you can always find information about your CPU & memory from /proc: Code:
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hardinfo -f html > hardwareinfo.html Also, you can have a look at what the kernel spits out during the boot process: Code:
dmesg Code:
dmesg | less |
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