Linux question

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-08-26 09:49pm

I'm looking at getting linux for a computer i'm getting in october. It has a pentium 144mhz processor, 40gb hd, and an unknown amount of ram. What distro do you recomend. I'm currently leaning twoards suse seeing as redhat would require more processor power than i have. Could redhat work with that setup? Links for anything other than redhat or suse (i know where i can get those already) would be appreaciated.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-26 10:02pm

Maybe SuSE, but don't use KDE or GNOME with such a slow machine. Try using one of the various low-end window managers (or even XFce 4)

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2003-08-26 11:27pm

You'd probably be best off with Slackware or Debian. The rest tend to install and run a bunch of programs by default that'll slow your computer to a crawl.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-08-27 05:18pm

I recommend Debian. APT makes upgrade easy, however you have to either have broadband or willing to leave internet on overnight for upgrades(and frequent updates are recommended, if using unstable, because of the security updates. What I would install is the base install, plus blackbox and the bare minimum to run konqueror(much leaner than the mozilla based browsers). I used this ISO to install, plus a winmodem driver downloaded before install

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-08-27 05:23pm

Then again, the debian net install is sparse, with no GUI after the installation, so you might want something more user friendly. You could try another debian based distro like libranix(sp?) or knoppix.