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03-09-2005, 08:14 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: New Orleans, LA
Distribution: Fedora Core 3
Posts: 20
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Thinking of switching distros
Hi All:
I was thinking of switching distros. I have a Toshiba Laptop, Pentium III, and Fedora Core 3 takes a long time to load, not to mention it runs out of memory sometimes/crashes (only once in a while). Would you recommend a different distribution that's up to date, yet smaller?
-Sincerely,
Richard
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03-09-2005, 08:19 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: May 2003
Location: INDIA
Distribution: Ubuntu, Solaris,CentOS
Posts: 5,522
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hi there
try slackware
that will require a little more expertise than fedora core 3
regards
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03-09-2005, 08:46 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: earth
Distribution: slackware by choice, others too :} ... android.
Posts: 23,067
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I'd second the slackware-notion ;)
Cheers,
Tink
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03-09-2005, 08:55 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Germany
Distribution: Debian (testing)
Posts: 276
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Slackware is great (especially for low memory machines). Debain is also great.
If you are having problems running out of memory remember to have an adequate swap partition next time (2X RAM or 512 MB whichever is smaller).
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03-09-2005, 09:09 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Ohio
Distribution: Slackware 9.1/10/10.1 RedHat circa 2000, Knoppix, OpenSuse 10.0/10.1
Posts: 122
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I third, or forth Slackware. Great for older machines, server, workstations you name it 
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03-09-2005, 09:15 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Boston
Distribution: slackware
Posts: 502
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Slackware is not for the faint-hearted, but fortune favours the brave.
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03-09-2005, 10:47 PM
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HCL Maintainer
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: McCalla, AL, USA
Distribution: Gentoo on headless; Arch on everything that requires a GUI
Posts: 6,941
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I'll jump on the bandwagon. Slackware running on
all 5 boxen here...
But, if you run Slack, forget about all that point and
click and think with my index finger -- at least until
you've got your system properly setup and configured
and customized.
Linux is just the kernel, Slackware is one of over 200
different distributions. It is the oldest Linux distro, and
has the largest community and following.
Once you run Slack for a while, you'll get the feeling
you've got a new computer.
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03-09-2005, 11:02 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Slackware, Suse 9.2
Posts: 565
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I love Slackware and do run it myself, but do some research before you go in that direction. As mentioned, it'll take a little more work and knowledge than your current setup. All that said, Debian, Ubuntu, Vector, MEPIS and SuSE are other distros you may want to take a look at it. I'm assuming you know the link already, but if not, do a little reading at DistroWatch
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03-09-2005, 11:51 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Eastern PA, USA
Distribution: K/Ubuntu 18.04-14.04, Scientific Linux 6.3-6.4, Android-x86, Pretty much all distros at one point...
Posts: 1,802
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I'm a SuSE whore...
Good ACPI management...
But do your own thing, as long as it's not M$,...
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03-10-2005, 12:42 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Boise, ID
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 6,642
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I dig both Slack and Suse, and would suggest that you won't go wrong with either of them. Good luck with it. BTW the only way to determine which distro is right for you is to try a large number of them, then make your own decision based on your own personal experience. Have fun! -- J.W.
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03-10-2005, 06:10 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2002
Distribution: Mandrake 10.0 O
Posts: 48
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Just tried feather linux - installs a minimum but well working setup in 10 min and then you have a debian based distro where you can add on only the things that you want
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