The [Main] What Distro should YOU use?


View Poll Results: Best Distro for Low resource PC?

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  • Dam Small Linux

    20 11.76%

  • Debian

    42 24.71%

  • Feather Linux

    3 1.76%

  • Gentoo

    13 7.65%

  • Puppy Linux

    9 5.29%

  • Slackware

    38 22.35%

  • SuSE

    9 5.29%

  • Vector

    10 5.88%

  • Yoper

    0 0%

  • Other

    26 15.29%
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  1. 09-11-2005, 04:21 AM #11
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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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