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Distro Help? [EDITED]
Narf Man:
I ran this test by my buddy Rob, and it told him to use Fredora. He's so happy with Fredora that he actually destroyed his XP install disk.
Seriously, I hope any newbies to Linux look at this when choosing a distro. It's a great tool (I'm glad I came across it).
Refalm:
My advise was Kubuntu and Mepis, and I was planning to switch over to Kubuntu actually.
hm_murdock:
Phil,
Is this your own computer? If it is, why do you need someone's permission? If not, why not get a summer job and buy your own box?
Aloone_Jonez:
Summers gone Jimmy, ;) anyway providing you don't run a big and bloated distro you can easilly run Linux on a cheaper old machince, so I recommend you go and buy a cheap P500 add more than 128MB of RAM (preferibly 256) and you'll be up and running in no time.
Why is everyone going on about FAT32? Firstly it is shit and secondly Linux can read NTFS (and can write to it using captive). The only reason you'll ever need a FAT32 partition is to copy data from Linux to Windows.
Firefoxfanphill:
Yes I am thinking of a job, but on the other hand I think I rather use this computer, its cheaper and I'm the only one ever on it, so why bother getting another one? Also, the age old "I need to play games" comes up so I'm just going to do a dual boot :-), though I am hoping to get my friends broken pc sometime soon. Run an apache server or something for kicks.
Anyway, It keeps saying "Gentoo" as my distribution of choice, theres no livecd that I can use to check hardware support which is why I'm thinking on "not" getting Gentoo but again try SuSE.
Ideas?
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