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airmech:
I have a old computer running win98SE and am strictly using it for a game server at this time. I have been thinking of intalling and tinkering with linux on this machine. It is a P166 with 32mb of ram.
I have been looking at different versions of linux and was just wondering if someone has any recommendations on which version would work on this computer? I will be networking it with my other computers and probably be setting it up with the game server again.
I don't expect anyone to hold my hand, just maybe point me in the right direction.

preacher:
That is indeed an old box you have there, and it might not work too well with more recent versions of linux unless you are planning a text only install. My suggestion if you desire a gui, is to install an older distro that has less system requirements for X, patch the hell out of it, then set it up as the game server. By the way, which game will this be a server for?(please say Quake)

Master of Reality:
I would recommend installing Red Hat. But install a different GUI. BlackBox is a good fast GUI.

Calum:
so is XFce.

i am currently using mandrake 8.2, in the install you can choose to install KDE2.4, GNOME1.4, or "other desktop environments" if i were you, i'd get that, and install only the "other desktops", not gnome or kde. This way, you'll get about a half dozen perfectly good (but low resource) GUIs to pick from...

creedon:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
so is XFce.

i am currently using mandrake 8.2, in the install you can choose to install KDE2.4, GNOME1.4, or "other desktop environments" if i were you, i'd get that, and install only the "other desktops", not gnome or kde. This way, you'll get about a half dozen perfectly good (but low resource) GUIs to pick from...
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I really like XFCe, it's very low resource, but configureable, and faster than a scalded cat. (shameless plug) It runs extremely well in Debian.  Hey, theres a thought!!  Debian runs really well on low resource boxes!!  Maybe you ought to try Debian.  I'd use 2.2.5 ("Potato") Woody might be a little much for a P166

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