Which Linux Should I use????

[JetsFanatic]

I want to set up linux on an older PC.
It is a 200 Mhz system with 64Meg RAM.
4 gig HD, CD-Rom, 4Meg video, no sound,
& 10baseT card.

Which flavour would be my best bet???
I just want the system for web browsing,
e-mail, seti@home, & possibly testing out
some thin clients. No games or office apps.
I will be adding it to a newtork with Win98,
Win XP, MAC 9.2, & MAC X systems on it.
Connecting to the internet via a DSL router.

Thanks for the info.

I currently have caldera 2.4 running on it,
but would like to hear your input.

Thanks again

 

[Electrode]

Slackware or Debian

The best all around Linux distros, hands-down.

 

[FoBoT]

try several of them and decide for yourself

linuxiso.org

 

[nortexoid]

most any popular distro should be fine, as long as you use a simple window manager (or none at all)...

blackbox, window maker, etc. are all popular, simple, and clean window managers....

KDE and Gnome are not.

 

[kellygirlbeads]

FreeBSD


Linux is for people who hate microsoft. Don't stoop to that level. Find yourself a REAL OS.

- KeL

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< FreeBSD


Linux is for people who hate microsoft. Don't stoop to that level. Find yourself a REAL OS.

- KeL >>



Linux isnt that bad. Its a nice starting point. Atleast it was for me. Later "upgraded" to FreeBSD, then found the one true way

Anyhow, RedHat, Slackware, Debian, and Gentoo should all be reasonable choices for the hardware.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< FreeBSD


Linux is for people who hate microsoft. Don't stoop to that level. Find yourself a REAL OS.

- KeL >>


that is what you could call a loaded post.

anyways, mandrake, suse, and redhat are collectively thought of as the 'beginner' distros, slackware/debian/gentoo/linuxfromscratch are the "hard" ones, ones that you'll probably have LOTS of trouble with until you get comfortable and feel like you know what you're doing.

 

[freebsddude]

<<
anyways, mandrake, suse, and redhat are collectively thought of as the 'beginner' distros, slackware/debian/gentoo/linuxfromscratch are the "hard" ones, ones that you'll probably have LOTS of trouble with until you get comfortable and feel like you know what you're doing.
>>



Agreed 110%

If you are completely new to Unix, then I would probably recommend Mandrake, if you are somewhat Unix literate, then Redhat, Suse are the ones to try, but if you have worked with Unix before quite a bit, then slack/debian/gentoo would be the ones to try (or *BSD, for that matter).

Honestly, it is a very individual choice, as FoBoT said, try a few and pick a distro that you are most comfortable with.

Good luck!

 

[matheusber]

in performance point of view ....

slack 7/8 is really great ... fast ...

he said he's using caldera, so i suppose he knows something ...

matheus