Re: [Nolug] Which Linux is best?

I finally decided to put SUSE 7.1 Professional on it. The
documentation on the box said I had the minimum requirements. I got
the computer, a old Pentium 166 with about 64MB RAM, from Terry
Stockdale a BRLUG member. I would also like to thank Bart Pittari for
the complete boxed set of SUSE 7.0 Pro. I know it's old and
unsupported by SUSE but it had a bunch of games on it and it supported
the cd burner that was installed and that is what my brother wants to
do, burn CD's and play games. At this time the machine will not be
connected to the internet so I am not worried about vulnerabilities in
an older Linux kernel (2.4 I believe).

By the way check out this site
http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/oldpc/

Chris Johnston

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:56:02 -0600, Chris Johnston <cmjohnston@gmail.com> wrote:
> No printer, there is a modem but based on the machine it's probably a
> winmodem. He is most likely going to want to play games but that will
> come later. If I can get a monitor tonight I will boot it up and pull
> out all the pertinent info that I will need when I load Linux.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:37:28 -0600, Mischa Krilov <subs@krilov.com> wrote:
> > Chris Johnston wrote:
> > > I am going to install Linux on an old machine that someone gave me (it
> > > now has Win 95) and give it to my brother for Christmas.
> >
> > What kind of hardware are we talking about? As a new computer user, he
> > may not know what he wants to do with a computer, so you won't want to
> > confuse the user. Also, many of the modern heavyweight distros won't
> > play nice on older hardware- You'll be setting him up for aggravation,
> > frustration, and a bad Linux/first-time-computer experience. This is a
> > Bad Thing.
> >
> > Tell us more what he wants to do with it: is there a printer involved? a
> > modem? games?
> >
> > > Which version
> > > of Linux would be appropriate for a newbie? By the way, I have SuSE
> > > 6.0 and 9.0, Mandrake 7, and RedHat 6.0 all available to me at the
> > > moment.
> >
> > I'd use none of those. Depending on hardware, I think you'll want to
> > choose a more minimalist distro. I'd recommend Damn Small Linux, Feather
> > Linux, or the more feature-complete Vector Linux.
> >
> > See this wiki page for more links to Lightweight Linux:
> > http://nolug.org/nolugwiki/index.cgi?LightweightLinux
> >
> > MDK
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