oops, sorry

[pawz]

Hello again folks. Thanks for all the replies to my previous thread called 'which one?, and my apologies techieMoe for not looking for faq's before I started in - silly of me. I thought your tactful redirection of my gaze was friendly and gracious

I have done the distroquiz and was suprised to find that this lil ol Packard Bell is not going to have the specs for most linux flavours out there. That is an eye-opener as I was told by someone that machines no longer considered 'good enough' for Windows, would be ideal for Linux. Hmmmm. Shame to chuck it away. It came in as a Windows 98, one careful owner all up-together system. I thought Linux would suit it, and give me a machine to play with Linux-wise as my main machine has to stay with Windows.

Anyway, I am going for Slackware, just to see what happens Thank you for your help - I will probably be back...soon !

[Kieren]

You should be able to run an old distribution of Linux without any problems. Newer distributions will run slowly just as Windows XP/Vista will.

If you want to have a play with Linux then have you considered a dual boot or Live CD? There is also a program called VMWare, a bios emulator which will let you run 2 operating systems at the same time

[techieMoe]

Hello again folks. Thanks for all the replies to my previous thread called 'which one?, and my apologies techieMoe for not looking for faq's before I started in - silly of me. I thought your tactful redirection of my gaze was friendly and gracious

Thank you, I didn't want to scare you off, just as you said "redirect" you to an area that might help.

I have done the distroquiz and was suprised to find that this lil ol Packard Bell is not going to have the specs for most linux flavours out there. That is an eye-opener as I was told by someone that machines no longer considered 'good enough' for Windows, would be ideal for Linux. Hmmmm. Shame to chuck it away. It came in as a Windows 98, one careful owner all up-together system. I thought Linux would suit it, and give me a machine to play with Linux-wise as my main machine has to stay with Windows.

Did you by chance see the "What about old computers?" section of this thread?

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...e-posting.html

I have a very old P3 that came with Windows 98 as well. I've been able to get it working decently with Damn Small Linux and some of the other distributions listed in that thread. There may just be some life left in your older box yet.

[pawz]

I might give the live cd option a go Kieren - thanks. I shall see how things go.

TechieMoe, perhaps I did have a quick look at the old computers bit, maybe that is where I picked up on the Slackware. Whatever, this is just for me, to see what Linux can do, so I don't mind trying all sorts before I settle and Slackware sounded suitably easy for a beginner, so...