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