View Poll Results: Best Distro for Low resource PC?
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Dam Small Linux
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Debian
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Feather Linux
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Gentoo
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Puppy Linux
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Slackware
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SuSE
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Vector
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Yoper
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Three recommemdations to make. Debian Sarge, DebianPure (debianpure.com) and Ubuntu. If you can wait until next month, Ubuntu 5.10 - Breezy - will be out. Obviously all three are debian based. I think Debianpure has a leg up on the original because it come with some of the features most folks can't do without or expect. Like Flash, Java and multimedia. I'd go with a netinstall for both the original Debian and DebianPure. There is no netinstall for Ubuntu that I"m aware of. But that's OK because you only need one CD to install it. Unlike other distros that require 4 or 5 CDs.
Just to throw you off a little, Ubuntu is my main desktop. Love it. One other thing to knock you off stride - Frugleware. Great distro. But it's not for newbies.
I've run all three on my old PC which has:
PIII 550 Mhz processor
384 Mb ram
ATI Mach 64 video card
10Gb HD
CD-Rom
Not exactly a speed demon, that old PC, but not bad at all. They all preform very nicely.
Last edited by loopback48; 09-11-2005 at 04:26 AM.
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