__/ [ 486box ] on Wednesday 07 February 2007 17:07 \__
> On Feb 7, 11:08 am, "raylopez99" <raylope...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Feb 7, 8:01 am, "raylopez99" <raylope...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>>
>> > I was going to just buy the lastest RedHat for the desktop CD for my
>> > old Pentium II, but I'll ask the group first: what's the best 'minimum
>> > hardware' desktop x86 processor Linux distro?
>>
>> Well, I just checked the system requirements for Linspire, and that
>> distro sure will not work. Hope the others are not the same, but I'm
>> not holding my breath.
>>
>
> Well, Linspire is a rather bloated distro. I would off-handedly say
> Elive, or Debian if you're familiar with Linux. Damn Small Linux is
> good, and I think that that or Elive would fit your described system
> best. They are both low-hardware-req. distros, unlike Linspire, which
> is only for newer PCs.
> Links:
> www.damnsmalllinux.org
> www.debian.org
> http://www.elivecd.org/
>
>>Thanks in advance!
> Always glad to help.
>
>>BTW, years ago I posted here flaming Linux users. I have since
>>mellowed, only because I realized Linux is no longer a serious threat
>>to MSFT (I'm a shareholder). Now, with the MSFT-Novell hookup, if
>>anything I pity you guys! Hahaha!
>
> It might be, it might not. I don't really care about Microsoft, I just
> want to make sure there's enough Linux users for developing to
> continue.
> And we don't really need pity, we won't be going away anytime soon.
> Just don't flame, and we'll be polite. (The real advocates anyway, not
> necessarily so-called 'advocates' like 7, DFS, Flatfish++, etc, etc.)
There are rare occasions when 7 does proper advocacy. The rest don't even
pretend to be advocates. They have a bully's complex.
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