demorgoron Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 hello people, i have a 500mhz,95 ram... pc sitting around collecting dust and i would like to install linux on it,for like getting into the experiece and such. any recomendations on what type of linux to use(please no lindows or any other linux that is not free) and some llinks to ghuides and download pages -thanks in advance :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaKeY Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Get yourself some more ram, 256 total would be fine. Then look here: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=152954 https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=40533 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demorgoron Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 ok,thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 that is enough ram. but with more you could run linux much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted April 29, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 29, 2004 With 96MB RAM you'd need to stick to a lightweight GUI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted April 30, 2004 Share Posted April 30, 2004 (edited) If you want an "easy distro": Fedora Mandrake Although these two are harder in some ways than most of the ones below due to a lack of package management. They use RPMs which you either love or hate (most people hate). RPMs have the dependency hell. You can get some programs to do package management for you though. Learner's distros: Slackware Binary Runs very quickly for a binary distribution One of the oldest and most tested distributions Good teaching distribution [*]Debian Binary Distribution Good package manager [*]Gentoo Compiles from Source Very long install time as the whole system is built up from the ground Optimized Oustanding package manager Good teaching distribution [*]LFS Compiles from source No package manager, except you Get to experience the hell that is dependencies Teaches the most Takes longer than Gentoo to install since you have to be there, although you could script yourself an installer Edited April 30, 2004 by kjordan2001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 30, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 30, 2004 If you want an "easy distro": Fedora or MandrakeLearner's distros: Slackware Binary Runs very quickly for a binary distribution One of the oldest and most tested distributions [*]Gentoo [*]Debian [*]LFS Those are all good choices to choose from. The more time you want to devote to start-up learning, the lower you go down the list. You can still learn with the top distros, but they will do quite a bit of the setup for you (and you will have to take it on your own if you want to dig in deeper). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapnuts_ox Posted April 30, 2004 Share Posted April 30, 2004 I recomend this for a beginner. Install Fedora Core 1 http://fedora.redhat.com (or if you wait 3 weeks Fedora Core 2) and then install xfce4 http://www.xfce.org since it is a very light weight interface but also is rich in features. I personally use fedora because its quick and easy to install and I don't have to waste any time configuring anything, however my server runs debian since i feel it is a better server distro and I do spend the time to configure that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooodi Posted April 30, 2004 Share Posted April 30, 2004 no spam or anything...but i started 2 learn from reading up from www.linuxiso.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nichotin Posted April 30, 2004 Share Posted April 30, 2004 kjordan2001: err. mandrake got urpmi, and fedora got yum to avoid this so called depency hell :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted April 30, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 30, 2004 kjordan2001: err. mandrake got urpmi, and fedora got yum to avoid this so called depency hell :) urpmi and yum help out but it still isn't elegant. The best package management is apt-get but Debian can be difficult to install. I'd recommend that he install Knoppix. It uses Debian's apt-get system and it is a lot easier to install onto the hard drive than Debian (there is a HD install script from the LiveCD). It also comes with XFce and Fluxbox preinstalled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LispyGlitter2 Posted April 30, 2004 Share Posted April 30, 2004 Personally, I'm in the same boat. I really have fallen in love with Ark Linux H2O. SuSE is good to learn from, but I'd stick with Mandrake, Ark, or a new distro called Cobind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted April 30, 2004 Share Posted April 30, 2004 kjordan2001: err. mandrake got urpmi, and fedora got yum to avoid this so called depency hell :) That's why I said You can get some programs to do package management for you though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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