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I am fairly new to the Linux community and I need help choosing a distro for a modded laptop system I am building. It has 192mb of Ram and a ...
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- 03-29-2005 #1Just Joined!
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Distro Help
I am fairly new to the Linux community and I need help choosing a distro for a modded laptop system I am building. It has 192mb of Ram and a 700mhz Celeron processor. It is a Jetta 7700. I want to use it to play DVD and video files, some basic word processing, office software, internet use, and run some old gaming system emulators. I would also like it to be able to use some type of gaming controller. It will probably only have a 10gig hard drive so I am looking for the most compact installation available. What do you recommend?
- 03-30-2005 #2Linux Guru
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Looking at your specs, you can run almost any modern distro provided you create a swap space of ~400 - 600 MB.
I would Suggest in order:
1. Mandrake
2. Fedora
3. Debian
4. SuSE
5. Gentoo
Take your pick out of these, they can be customised to take up anywhere between 600 MB - 3 G of hard drive (including GUI, programs etc.).
- 03-30-2005 #3Linux Newbie
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- 03-30-2005 #4Linux Newbie
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A system with:
*OS*
Fedora Core 3,
*Apps*
Mplayer
OpenOffice
X-Chat
*Emulators*
ZSNES
Gens
FCE Ultra
*Should Get Autoconfigured*
Basic USB Drivers
Modem Drivers
Don't go for gentoo if you don't want fedora, it has a long and tedious installation, and you have to compile it from scratch.
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