[Zuggy]

Hey All,

In a month or less I'll be recieving an old computer and I was wondering what would be a good distro for someone just getting into linux. The Specs are as follows

AMD k6-2-550Mhz
256 MB Ram
20 GB Hard drive
nVidia geForce 2 MX 400 w/64 mb ram
2x2x24x CD-RW
Conexant/Riptide 56k modem and audio combo
floppy drive
Kingston 10/100 ethernet card

I've found drivers for the modem and sound on the net so that's not a concern. (I tried Knoppix and it didn't have any sound). I plan on formatting the HD and making Linux the only OS on te system (Currently running windows 9. Also I'm on a tight budget and don't have much money so preferrably something I can download, and don't worry about size I have a cable modem. Thanks for your help

[heartsmagic]

That's abit complicated question
Search the forum and net. Learn about ditros. a site?
http://www.distrowatch.com/

IF you want a stable distro I suggest Slackware. I see the future most people will say
"No Slack is so hard for a newbie"


Yep, it wants a little bit Linux knowledge, but it rocks !

IF you want more user-friendly distro try Mandrake or Redhat

Note: I am sorry but your question is in the shit list
But whenever i see a linux trier(lover) i run for help

Good Luck! [/b]

[Nerderello]

here's my two cents worth.

Go for Mandrake

http://www.linux-mandrake.com

or Fedora
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/

these are both user and newbie friendly Distros and can be downloaded.

have fun

Nerderello

[pmeg568c]

if slackware doesnt work for you

(like me) try vector its based on slackware

[ouijongbu]

personally, even for a so called "newbie" i would still reccomend slack, though the learning curve is sharper, it will teach you linux. Fedroa and Mandrake don't really teach you much, so when you do want to use a more powerful distro, you will only be marginally more prepared/

[anand]

Try Fedora

[Chavez]

I'm using Mandrake 9.2

Am happy with it. You have to spend a lot of time installing what you want from the disks as I found there was a lot of software that didn't install by default that I wanted.

[ouijongbu]

Originally Posted by Chavez

I'm using Mandrake 9.2

Am happy with it. You have to spend a lot of time installing what you want from the disks as I found there was a lot of software that didn't install by default that I wanted.

right that is one thing i don't really like about mandrake, while you can edit what it installs during the install, there is a some red tape to get through. I do not like the distros that tell me what i want. Slackware lets you chose packages one by one, takes a long time, but you get everything that you want, and nothing you don't, also, "default" is everything on a slackware install. which is also good, if you do not know what you want.