Hi Linux World

[rameshkarthik]

Hi Everyone,

I've been a windows user for a long time and I want to change from the traditional user so I'm thinking of diving into the linux world.

Let me start my very first question to this community here itself:
I've the following config for my system
1. P4 2.4 GHZ
2. 256 MB of RAM
3. 40 GB HDD out of which I intend to use only 10 GB for Linux and the rest goes for my very old win xp

Can you suggest on some Linux distros that I can with these configs?

Anxiously awaiting your hand in help....

Regards,
K.Ramesh Karthik.

[reed9]

Welcome.

You can run pretty much any distro with those specs, but anything running the two major desktop environments, GNOME or KDE, will be probably be pretty poor.

Anything running a lightweight window manager should be acceptable. These are not usually quite as new user friendly, though. My personal opinion is that Linux Mint Fluxbox edition is one of the more newbie friendly, lightweight distros.

Some options:
Helena Fluxbox Release Notes - Linux Mint
Main Page - antiX
CrunchBang Linux - A nimble Openbox Linux distro
About Spin: LXDE

A couple up and coming that look good, but don't have a finished release yet:
Helena LXDE Release Notes - Linux Mint
Unity Linux
lubuntu | light Ubuntu for faster computing

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Arch, Crux, Debian, and Gentoo would all probably be good distros for that computer because you can install a minimal base system, then install only the extra software that you want/need, keeping things very lightweight. Note that some of them aren't as new user friendly as others, but there are new users that have successfully installed each of them.

Hope you'll have fun with it.