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| Thread ID: 63363 | 2005-11-06 17:09:00 | Linux questions........ | SurferJoe46 (51) | Press F1 |
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| 402497 | 2005-11-07 19:30:00 | The machine I'm gonna try it on is Soyo Dragon SY-333 Ultra Platinum, AMD Athlon XP, 1.3gHz, 1 gig RAM, 2-200gig Maxtor, NVIDIA GeForce MX440 AGPEX. Will that work OK? :groan: I have larger and faster machines..and a few Dell Beige 500 and 450's with 512.I have Gentoo running sweetly on an AMD K6 (500Mhz) with 128 meg shared PC100 RAM (with Gnome too :)) Runs better than my partners 466 Celeron with 256 meg and 98SE :D |
Myth (110) | ||
| 402498 | 2005-11-08 00:07:00 | SuSe is nice and I have found YaST rather friendly (don't know what it stands for though :confused: ) YAST = Yet Another System Tool. SuSe is slick visually but seems to be quite resource hungry - my AMD850 went too slow so I went back to my favourite (Fedora). |
johnd (85) | ||
| 402499 | 2005-11-08 04:27:00 | I think is NZ made as well if memory services me correct. :D yeap |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 402500 | 2005-11-08 07:09:00 | Yoper was made in NZ, but Andreas has now left and is working for Novell on SuSE-based distros I too would recommend Gentoo. You come across as the type of person who would really appreciate the good documentation, as well as knowing what your PC is doing when you Press X or type Y Go to Gentoo.org and click "Get Gentoo!" up the top. You need to start by downloading one of the ISO's for your system (Minimal Install CD's as they're also known as). From there, boot it and read the doco's :-) We're here for you if you get stuck Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 402501 | 2005-11-08 21:01:00 | Grab a Mepis live CD. Give it a whirl, if you like, install it to your hard drive. Mepis is an easy, user friendly, distro but undeniably Linux. If you want something a bit more challenging, go for Gentoo. You'll learn heaps on the installation alone, I'd still try Mepis first, it has great hardware detection and all the software you need. |
Murray P (44) | ||
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