Linux

[alex_boothby]

I am a home Pc user, i want to put linux on my laptop, what is the best FREE verison for this?


thanks alex

 

[spartan228]

red hat

 

[Computergen1]

Gentoo dave....gentoo. if you want an easier installation than use ubuntu.

 

[alex_boothby]

gr8 thnx im gonna try ubunto first, but what are teh advantages of gentoo?

 

[xlnc]

Gentoo dave....gentoo. if you want an easier installation than use ubuntu.

hey, dya know a place i can download that...?
i know about http://linuxiso.org
but are there any other sources??

 

[alex_boothby]

http://ubuntu.hands.com/releases/hoary/

thats were i got mine from works fine.

 

[acphenom]

I've used Ubuntu 5.04 before on my laptop, which has a VIA C3 CPU, meaning that i had compatibility issues with Fedora, so i'd say you can rely on it for almost any machine.

Programs are easy to install on it too, so it's quite a good distro for beginners, but Linspire was better imo, however, that costs a hell of a lot of money, so i wouldn't go for that.

 

[alex_boothby]

my laptop is only a dell 600mhz should it run ok on it?

 

[x0r515t]

If it does run a little slow on that machine you should change to another window manager, specifically a more light weight window manager such as fluxbox or enlightenment.

 

[acphenom]

Well, Ubuntu, although slightly slow, was extremely stable, on my VIA C3 Nehemiah 1.2GHz 240MB RAM laptop, so i think you might just get by.