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 Apr 21 2008, 09:34 AM
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Apr 21 2008, 09:46 AM
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 Bleeping Diesel Addicted Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,606 Joined: 23-January 06 From: SW VA USA Member No.: 51,954 |
DSL and many of the other lightweight distros will work
--------------------  "I'm so much cooler online" - Brad Paisley |
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Apr 21 2008, 03:40 PM
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In case you missed it this might help you decide
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic41001.html DSL, TinyMe, and even some of the "bigger" might work since you have 256mb mem. ----- W.B. BlackSpyder -------------------- "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster"  |
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Apr 21 2008, 08:26 PM
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There is a ubuntu version without all the handy graphical user interfaces i belive
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Apr 21 2008, 08:32 PM
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Bleeping Diesel Addicted Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,606 Joined: 23-January 06 From: SW VA USA Member No.: 51,954 |
QUOTE(Thelastleap @ Apr 21 2008, 09:26 PM)  There is a ubuntu version without all the handy graphical user interfaces i belive Xubuntu and fluxbuntu -------------------- "I'm so much cooler online" - Brad Paisley |
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Apr 21 2008, 10:19 PM
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 Bleepin' Night Watchman Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,762 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307 |
I run Xubuntu on an ancient machine that's not even as powerful as the original posters. Methinks Xubuntu would be a good fit.
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Apr 22 2008, 03:02 PM
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Distinguished Member Group: Members Posts: 781 Joined: 9-May 06 From: PCLinuxOS Land Member No.: 67,460 |
A good place to look, find, all the above is http://distrowatch.com/ . I suggest you pick 3-4 (or more) and try them out and see which seems to suit you and what you want to do  Nice thing about Linux is most (almost all) are free to download so try as many as you are willing to spend time downloading and burning to cd. I've used/tried 8-9 different distros before I settled on this one so don't be afraid to experiment some as most can be used "Live" which doesn't do anything to your system settings and runs from the cd itself, not the hard drive. ( I've got 4-5 distros I play with "live" from time to time ) Plus running them live will tell you pretty quick if your system will handle it well or not.-------------------- "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster" |
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Apr 22 2008, 04:33 PM
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 I can see what you post! Group: Members Posts: 6,306 Joined: 14-February 05 From: Somewhere in North East Ohio Member No.: 12,053 |
Once you settle on a distro, most of the applications a distro has immediate access to is in it's repositories. A repository is a library on your computer of links to the Internet of available programs. When you would like to install them, it is downloaded and installed.
Ubuntu's repository manager is called Synaptic Packet Manager. -------------------- |
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Apr 23 2008, 02:35 PM
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Distinguished Member Group: Members Posts: 781 Joined: 9-May 06 From: PCLinuxOS Land Member No.: 67,460 |
LUV the Synaptic 
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