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Distro Help? [EDITED]
Pathos:
--- Quote from: 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.
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You can run Linux on machines with 2mb of ram. Vector Linux standard recommends 32-64mb. Previous versions worked fine with 16mb.
I and others only mentioned FAT32 for file sharing between Lin&Win.
Although it definitely works with NTFS, I can read/delete/alter files from the family computer while they are using it. hehe, wait for them to download a really big file then cut and paste it somewhere else. very funny. :D
MarathoN:
--- Quote from: Commander ---matched me with mandrake pcl & suse. Seeing how suse rocks the entire known universe, i must say, this test is fairly accurate.
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One thing that I ABSOLUTELY HATE about SuSE is the fact that there are no choices for GUI apart from KDE and GNOME.... :rolleyes:
themacuser:
That's one thing really good about Ubuntu - it's easy to switch windowmanager. I know someone who has gnome, kde, afterstep, fluxbox and icewm on their ubuntu box, and it takes one set of radio buttons on the login screen to choose them.
KernelPanic:
--- Quote from: themacuser ---That's one thing really good about Ubuntu - it's easy to switch windowmanager. I know someone who has gnome, kde, afterstep, fluxbox and icewm on their ubuntu box, and it takes one set of radio buttons on the login screen to choose them.
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This has been possible on most distros for eons.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: Pathos ---You can run Linux on machines with 2mb of ram. Vector Linux standard recommends 32-64mb. Previous versions worked fine with 16mb.
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I am aware of this, however someone who is migrating away from Windows is most likely to require an easy to use desktop like KDE or GNOME and I certainly wouldn't recommend using them with any less than 128MB, Xfce maybe but it still ins't as easy as KDE or GNOME.
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