Seeking a Distro advice
 

Hi

I am DickWoods from Los Angeles I have some small experience with Linux over the years.

I have an elderly Dell Inspiron 8200 that I had SUSE 9.x installed, I used the hard drives and now wish to get them back to Linux

It is an Old Dell Dudes what Distro would you recommend?

Thanks Regards

DickWoods

damn small linux, puppy linux, or knoppix

A small Linux sounds right at first,
 

Hi

A small Linux sounds right at first, but the SUSE 9.x I had on it ran with no difficulties and it was fully loaded, was running MYSql MQSeries Tomcat Apache Eclipse, And a bunch of other stuf, no problemns, except the Nic driver got Bogarted.

I will seek a SUSE answer for a short while then try the small linux

Thanks

DickWoods

Since you used Suse, and it ran fine, grab the latest version and try it.

If there is some sluggishness, you might try one of the lighter desktops. Xfce4 comes with openSuSE and is lighter weight than KDE or Gnome.

DickWoods:

Dick if you like a little bit greeny and elegant try Linux Mint 7 Xfce.
To have enough info about later distros try visit distro watch at http://distrowatch.com/

good luck.

Thank you for your tips
 

Hi

Today will finish the SUSE trial, then get the other distros mentioned, Mint sounds interesting, not really a tree hugger but Ss cool, Dam Small Linux is interesting, but was a bit worried about handling Eclipse and WebSphere and MQSeries? Have to do some transaction things;

Thanks & Regards

DickWoods

I think Vector-Linux or Xubuntu will be best. You can always add packages