Ok so I'm posting this to hopefully get some opinions. I currently own a very nice mac, and have been interested in #@$#ing arround with linux for a bit now. I'm pretty new to the whole thing, so I'm looking to find an application that is relatively easy to use and install.

I recieved an old laptop I think might be good for trying this whole thing out on.

It's an old p/c 233mhz with 64 mb of ram and a 2 GB HD
so sad I know....

Anyway I'm interested in some advise on what would be a good OS that has a nice GUI, yet small enough to work on a machiene like this...

any advice?

I like Vector Linux and Damn Small Linux.DSL
Do you have a bootable cd in a laptop that old?

If so see if Slax or DSL would work. (not sure of the ram requirements of live distros, but a minimum of 64MB's rings a bell
for DSL.)

I am no expert, but on that machine I would look for a very minimal distro, and I would use fluxbox or blackbox as the windows manager.


If you wanted a better experience with Linux I think you could dual boot it on your MAC. (I don't have a mac so I have never tried this.)
But, I do know yellow dog and gentoo run on it) Yellow Dog

Good Luck...... and Welcome.

Hi,

If u want a windows like user interface and easy usage u can go for Suse. If you want to work on developer side then Redhat is good. Even some magazines give u Linux like PCQ Linux which has all the inbuilt softwares to watch and rip dvd, 3D animation software etc...

It completely depend on U what you want.

thanks,

yeah there is a floppy disk, CD drive, and believe it or not an IR port on it. At the time, I think it was a pretty good laptop. The processor is also a pentium MMX chip...

go to bios and see if you can boot from cd.

SUSE? which version...9.3 will run on that?????

I must of misunderstood the question.

yeah you can boot off the cd drive?

will the interface be very slow if I run off a bootable cd?

To be honest I really don't know.

But if you have the time download Damn small linux iso. or Slax.
burn it to a cd as an image.
Load Cd.
Set bios to boot from Cd.
Then see how it works on the laptop.
If it is acceptable then you can install it to harddrive.

The 64mb rams might slow down the live cd, but it is worth a shot.

I had vector on a P1 133 32mb tablet and it was real slowwwww.

I amn pretty sure you will not be able to have a pimped out KDE GUI like the ones you see at kde-look.org

Its going to have to be a small minimal distro running a real "light windows manager.

I hope this helps.**you have a typo on your profile. coperate sales...corporate sales.
Unless of course you do sell coperates then I am completely wrong.

lol thanks..... yeah it was a typo... really appreciate all the info

No problem.
If you have any more questions don't be shy.

Let me know how you make out.

Post here your sucess or failure.....it might help someone in the same boat.

Regards,
Blair