Rick <none@nomail.com> wrote: > You can get install CDs/DVDs from magazines. > You can research those same magazines for current distros that will work > on your machine. none of these will help on his old hardware. Look again at the spec: it's small. Chris

raylopez99 <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote: > Well thanks for the moral support Chris Davies. Do tell me what > distro did work for you, time and weather permitting. Well, I'm a Debian person myself, so I tend to run Debian "testing". Mind you, I now have a 700 MHz P3 as my home server, and my laptop is a DELL Latitude D820 (dual core, big screen, lots of memory...). I'd advise you to stay away from any of the big distros like Ubuntu (sadly), Fedora, Mandriva, or SuSE, unless you're prepared to spend the time yourself replacing their wonderfully sorted Gnome/KDE configurations with XFCE. On the other hand, a quick google suggests Xubuntu and others listed on http://www.xfce.org/download/distros. Note that I haven't tried them, so I can't specifically recommend them from direct experience. However, Xubuntu is the one I personally would try on such hardware (it's the closest to Debian). Good luck, Chris

In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.advocacy, Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> didnst hastily scribble thusly: > Rick <none@nomail.com> wrote: >> You can get install CDs/DVDs from magazines. >> You can research those same magazines for current distros that will work >> on your machine. > none of these will help on his old hardware. Look again at the spec: > it's small. My first distro was SuSE 5.2 And the specs on the machine I installed it on makes his look like a mainframe. ANY modern distro would install on his. OK, it might need a little more package selection and fine tuning, but ANY one compiled for 32bit intel x86 would work. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | spike1@freenet.co.uk | | |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't | | in | suck is probably the day they start making | | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* Chris Davies fired off this tart reply: > raylopez99 <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Well thanks for the moral support Chris Davies. Do tell me what >> distro did work for you, time and weather permitting. > > Well, I'm a Debian person myself, so I tend to run Debian "testing". > Mind you, I now have a 700 MHz P3 as my home server, and my laptop is > a DELL Latitude D820 (dual core, big screen, lots of memory...). > > I'd advise you to stay away from any of the big distros like Ubuntu > (sadly), Fedora, Mandriva, or SuSE, unless you're prepared to spend the > time yourself replacing their wonderfully sorted Gnome/KDE configurations > with XFCE. I got Ubuntu to load on a no-name 380MHz K6 laptop with 96 Mb. Works, but I run fluxbox on it. -- Tux rox!

Rick <none@nomail.com> wrote: > You can get install CDs/DVDs from magazines. > You can research those same magazines for current distros that will work > on your machine. none of these will help on his old hardware. Look again at the spec: it's small. Chris

raylopez99 <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote: > Well thanks for the moral support Chris Davies. Do tell me what > distro did work for you, time and weather permitting. Well, I'm a Debian person myself, so I tend to run Debian "testing". Mind you, I now have a 700 MHz P3 as my home server, and my laptop is a DELL Latitude D820 (dual core, big screen, lots of memory...). I'd advise you to stay away from any of the big distros like Ubuntu (sadly), Fedora, Mandriva, or SuSE, unless you're prepared to spend the time yourself replacing their wonderfully sorted Gnome/KDE configurations with XFCE. On the other hand, a quick google suggests Xubuntu and others listed on http://www.xfce.org/download/distros. Note that I haven't tried them, so I can't specifically recommend them from direct experience. However, Xubuntu is the one I personally would try on such hardware (it's the closest to Debian). Good luck, Chris

In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.advocacy, Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> didnst hastily scribble thusly: > Rick <none@nomail.com> wrote: >> You can get install CDs/DVDs from magazines. >> You can research those same magazines for current distros that will work >> on your machine. > none of these will help on his old hardware. Look again at the spec: > it's small. My first distro was SuSE 5.2 And the specs on the machine I installed it on makes his look like a mainframe. ANY modern distro would install on his. OK, it might need a little more package selection and fine tuning, but ANY one compiled for 32bit intel x86 would work. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | spike1@freenet.co.uk | | |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't | | in | suck is probably the day they start making | | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* Chris Davies fired off this tart reply: > raylopez99 <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Well thanks for the moral support Chris Davies. Do tell me what >> distro did work for you, time and weather permitting. > > Well, I'm a Debian person myself, so I tend to run Debian "testing". > Mind you, I now have a 700 MHz P3 as my home server, and my laptop is > a DELL Latitude D820 (dual core, big screen, lots of memory...). > > I'd advise you to stay away from any of the big distros like Ubuntu > (sadly), Fedora, Mandriva, or SuSE, unless you're prepared to spend the > time yourself replacing their wonderfully sorted Gnome/KDE configurations > with XFCE. I got Ubuntu to load on a no-name 380MHz K6 laptop with 96 Mb. Works, but I run fluxbox on it. -- Tux rox!