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Need to match a flavor of Linux to a PC
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| Mark Brown 2002-10-07, 1:24 am |
| I'm wanting to set up a Linux box to gain a little more experience in
Unix/Linux and to run a little web server. But, I'm having some trouble
finding a distribution of Linux that matches my hardware. The machine
I'm wanting to use is a P166 with 64MB of memory and 4GB drive. I
realize that virtually any flavor of Linux would probably run fairly
well if I stayed with just a command line, but I would like to be able
to use the GUI as well. Any recommendations?
Thanks,
Mark
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| Joe Fredrickson 2002-10-07, 2:26 am |
| On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 03:39 pm, Mark Brown posted to alt.os.linux the following
blurb ::
> I'm wanting to set up a Linux box to gain a little more experience in
> Unix/Linux and to run a little web server. But, I'm having some trouble
> finding a distribution of Linux that matches my hardware. The machine
> I'm wanting to use is a P166 with 64MB of memory and 4GB drive. I
> realize that virtually any flavor of Linux would probably run fairly
> well if I stayed with just a command line, but I would like to be able
> to use the GUI as well. Any recommendations?
www.distrowatch.com
Having said that, i would suggest that if you desperately want to use X,
something i tend to believe is bad for newbies who are really interested.
You should look at using
A) Debian www.debian.org or
B) Slackware www.slackware.org
Most people will say that these along with Gentoo are "advanced" distros
but IMHO most of the newbie friendly distro's have too much bloat, and are
generally less secure (something to note if you are runing a server)....
NB. Make sure you have a swap disk of 200M roughly, X will love you...
--
cheerio
Registered Linux User 282072
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| Sybren 2002-10-07, 2:26 am |
| Joe Fredrickson wrote:
> You should look at using
> A) Debian www.debian.org or
> B) Slackware www.slackware.org
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> Most people will say that these along with Gentoo are "advanced" distros
My newbie girlfriend uses Debian on a P200 / 64 MB with much pleasure! I had
to set it up for her, but now she's completely happy with 'apt-get' and
laughing hard at all Windoze users ;-) She runs X pretty OK, btw.
Sybren
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| Joe Fredrickson 2002-10-07, 4:24 am |
| On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 05:20 pm, Sybren posted to alt.os.linux the following
blurb ::
> My newbie girlfriend uses Debian on a P200 / 64 MB with much pleasure! I
> had to set it up for her, but now she's completely happy with 'apt-get'
> and laughing hard at all Windoze users ;-) She runs X pretty OK, btw.
I was refering to the setup, I probably shouldve specified that...
But I'm glad to see other people are using Debian as their first distro
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cheerio
Registered Linux User 282072
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| Mark Brown 2002-10-07, 8:24 pm |
| I appreciate the reply. Thanks!
Joe Fredrickson wrote:
>On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 03:39 pm, Mark Brown posted to alt.os.linux the following
>blurb ::
>
>>I'm wanting to set up a Linux box to gain a little more experience in
>>Unix/Linux and to run a little web server. But, I'm having some trouble
>>finding a distribution of Linux that matches my hardware. The machine
>>I'm wanting to use is a P166 with 64MB of memory and 4GB drive. I
>>realize that virtually any flavor of Linux would probably run fairly
>>well if I stayed with just a command line, but I would like to be able
>>to use the GUI as well. Any recommendations?
>>
>
>www.distrowatch.com
>
>Having said that, i would suggest that if you desperately want to use X,
>something i tend to believe is bad for newbies who are really interested.
>You should look at using
>A) Debian www.debian.org or
>B) Slackware www.slackware.org
>
>Most people will say that these along with Gentoo are "advanced" distros
>but IMHO most of the newbie friendly distro's have too much bloat, and are
>generally less secure (something to note if you are runing a server)....
>
>NB. Make sure you have a swap disk of 200M roughly, X will love you...
>
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| AthlonRob 2002-10-08, 2:24 am |
| On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 05:39:03 GMT, Mark Brown <GojiraTx@swbell.net> wrote:
> I'm wanting to set up a Linux box to gain a little more experience in
> Unix/Linux and to run a little web server. But, I'm having some trouble
> finding a distribution of Linux that matches my hardware. The machine
> I'm wanting to use is a P166 with 64MB of memory and 4GB drive. I
> realize that virtually any flavor of Linux would probably run fairly
> well if I stayed with just a command line, but I would like to be able
> to use the GUI as well. Any recommendations?
I suggest Slackware to learn Linux. If not Slackware, try Debian or
Gentoo. But you don't want to run Gentoo on that system... it would
take years to compile. :-)
As for the GUI... 64MB of RAM should be enough. But with that slow CPU,
it will lag a bit. I would definitely get a lightweight
windowmanager... that is, not KDE or GNOME. I like fluxbox... I use it
on all the systems I work on regularly. It is lightweight and fast.
Others like IceWM, Blackbox, and probably some others (twm? ick).
Have fun. :-)
Rob
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