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I will always put gentoo on everything... But on older hardware compiles can take a long time. I guess I would recommend you use a package based distro. Debian maybe? If you stay away from distro's that use RPMs you will end up saving yourself a whole lot of trouble.
hmm, i don't think i would install mandrake...you may be disappointed in performance because of your memory and cpu....I suppose you could use it with xfce or flux maybe...but I would still look at lighter distros to get the max amount of performance out of your computer...what do you want to do with this computer? are you going to set up a server, use it as a desktop computer?
I run a minimal Slackware install on an old P133 laptop w/ 96MB of ram with no problems - I use XFCE as my window manager. On a PIII 550 w/128MB you should be in good shape for your needs, that's what I use the laptop for.
I don't really think Gentoo is a good option to choose on his pc because the compiling proces will take days on that pc.
How much experience have you got with Linux?
I mean, If this is your first time using Linux, you should really use a distro for newbies since Debian or Gentoo will be to hard to use for a newbie. (I'm not saying it's hard for all newbies) I suggest you try a easy to use distro like "Fedora" or "SuSE", They are both fast and easy to use, and you don't need to configure a lot when you install it for the first time, You will have a fully graphical enviornment! I also suggest you try another windowmanager such as Xfce, this windowmanager is quite graphical and still it's lightweight
I have a Dell laptop that I have run Libranet 2.7 & 2.8.1 on just fine with the standard ICEwm. MEPIS live CD is soooooooooooo slow you can't imagine. With the amount of RAM I have I imagine any live cd would be.
I am not finished yet but the window manager seems very snappy and usable. I am partial to Debian and Slackware. Yes, I put Slackware on it for a short while just to see if it would find the network card. It did.
500 MHz
64 Meg RAM
10 Gig (dual boot Win98) Hey, my isp didn't like Linux when I was on the road. ;-)
Originally posted by Rayen16 I don't really think Gentoo is a good option to choose on his pc because the compiling proces will take days on that pc.
How much experience have you got with Linux?
I mean, If this is your first time using Linux, you should really use a distro for newbies since Debian or Gentoo will be to hard to use for a newbie. (I'm not saying it's hard for all newbies) I suggest you try a easy to use distro like "Fedora" or "SuSE", They are both fast and easy to use, and you don't need to configure a lot when you install it for the first time, You will have a fully graphical enviornment! I also suggest you try another windowmanager such as Xfce, this windowmanager is quite graphical and still it's lightweight
No this is not my first time using linux. I have installed and run redhat 8 and 9. the installation process was easy and was working fine.
If i use fedora will there be any problem if use a lightidows manager
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