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Sorta OT: What Linux distro should I use on a K5 90 MHz?

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Sukhoi

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? Hopefully it'll be upgraded to a P166 MMX or P200 MMX soon, but it'll still be slow. 🙂 64 MB of EDO RAM. I'm dual booting with Win98SE (which will be installed first). I just want an easy version of Linux to install to mess around with. If I can figure out how to get my printer shared on it, I might just keep the computer in Linux since the CLI will run faster in it than Win98SE. Thanks!

Oh yeah, I want free. 😉 I have fast cable so I can DL an ISO and burn it fine.
 
Yeah if you want a 'normal' install, then go for RedHat.

If you want a specialist one, then take your pick... 😉
 
I had good luck running Slackware 7 or 7.1 on some old systems, P120 etc... Try to avoid using the GUI for Linux, obviously the old slow mahcines will gag on it. good luck
 
Wow is RedHat big! :Q How much install space does it actually take? I have a 1.6 GB HDD in the machine, and I was planning 1 GB for Win98SE, and 600 MB for Linux.

My eventual goal is to get Samba set up so I can share the printer (I need Samba to do that right?), and then get WINE running with the CLI client. 🙂
 
You could do a minimal install then add samba and wine as rpms. Or, during the install phase, select the individual packages you want. It's really easy.
I reackon you could do all you want in 500Mb.

cheers

Col
 


<< According to the web site 350M is the minimal install, but I bet that is pretty minimal 🙂

Linkie >>


You got to be kidding me. I can easily install Linux under 150 MB, including all necessary libraries (glib etc.) and a bunch of programs (editors, network tools (plus Samba) etc.).

A very minimal Linux installation will be just about 30 MB.
 
I would suggest Peanut linux (slackware based) from http://ibiblio.org/peanut The latest v9.1b is pretty fast and uses E and the older v8.4 used kde. On your box I would grab the 8.4 iso (93 meg dl) and it is *very* easy to setup. Good luck!

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Ditto on the Peanut. I have it on my P120 Thinkpad. A nice Mandrake clone with all the goodies and the ability to use RPM, .tgz, and .debs. 😀
 
Unfortunately the linux client runs ~30 minutes slower than the win CLI. 🙁

Which is why I run the CLI in WINE on my Linux (that way, the CLI processes WUs about 5 minutes faster than if run on native windoze)! 😀
 
Ok, I'll try peanut and see how it works. 🙂 I wish that P166 MMX that I ordered would get here.. 😉
 
Question time! 😀 My printer only has Windows drivers. Is there any way to share my printer and run the CLI, both in WINE?
 
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