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General Category => Alt-OS => Topic started by: Prophet on October 31, 2002, 01:24:25 AM

Title: Which distro for... a newbie?
Post by: Prophet on October 31, 2002, 01:24:25 AM

I am wanting to ditch the MS crap on my computer.

I am a fairly quick learner and want to learn Linux.

I have an old PIII 450, 512 megs of ram, 60 gig drive, GeForce II MX-400 64meg video card. This is the computer I would like to learn Linux on.

What distro would be good to learn off of, and would run decently on this computer? /blink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':blink:\' />

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My first attempt at Linux was over a year ago, and really didn't go well due to just lack of understanding of the user levels. I think I have got those fixed up and I can compile things.

Title: Which distro for... a newbie?
Post by: Josetann on October 31, 2002, 01:39:16 AM

I would recommend Mandrake 9.0.  Very user-friendly, and should work fine on that box.

Title: Which distro for... a newbie?
Post by: watts3000 on November 01, 2002, 10:08:09 AM

[quote name=\'Josetann\' date=\'Oct 31 2002, 01:39 AM\']I would recommend Mandrake 9.0.  Very user-friendly, and should work fine on that box.[/quote]
                    Ditto. Hook it up w/ MDK 9.0 and you should have a wonderful time this time around.