Which distro for a Dell XPS T500 (Pent III)...

would you say? I used to be hard-core enough to run
Debian on an ooold IBM PC of mysterious vintage, but
I don't know if I'm up to another tour -- the current box
is now running Windows 98 SE okay, has ethernet board,
384Mb memory, about 20 GB disk. Standard-issue
old school (1999) right down the line, I believe. Any
recommendations?

On 09/04/2007 09:53 PM, jxrodri@yahoo.com wrote:
> would you say? I used to be hard-core enough to run
> Debian on an ooold IBM PC of mysterious vintage, but
> I don't know if I'm up to another tour -- the current box
> is now running Windows 98 SE okay, has ethernet board,
> 384Mb memory, about 20 GB disk. Standard-issue
> old school (1999) right down the line, I believe. Any
> recommendations?
>

I installed Debian Etch on a PIII with 64MB of ram. It's not so bad if
you don't use X much. If you do use X, stay away from bloated desktop
environments such as KDE and Gnome.

Fvwm and WindowMaker work great however. Since you have six times the
memory I have, you shouldn't have any problems, and 20GB of disk space
is more than twice what you will need. I think I installed in about 5GB.

At Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:53:18 -0700 jxrodri@yahoo.com wrote:

>
> would you say? I used to be hard-core enough to run
> Debian on an ooold IBM PC of mysterious vintage, but
> I don't know if I'm up to another tour -- the current box
> is now running Windows 98 SE okay, has ethernet board,
> 384Mb memory, about 20 GB disk. Standard-issue
> old school (1999) right down the line, I believe. Any
> recommendations?

I have a simular vintage Dell Insperion 4000 and it runs Centos 4.5
just fine -- almost everything seems to be supported (sound, video,
built-in Ethernet, pcmcia/cardbus) -- I don't know if the built-in
WinModem is suported -- I have no use for it and have not bothered to
set it up.

>
>

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jxrodri@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> would you say? I used to be hard-core enough to run Debian on an
> ooold IBM PC of mysterious vintage, but I don't know if I'm up to
> another tour -- the current box is now running Windows 98 SE okay,
> has ethernet board, 384Mb memory, about 20 GB disk. Standard-issue
> old school (1999) right down the line, I believe. Any
> recommendations?

If you want Windoze stick with W98. For something more modern, try
Ubuntu. Don't get later versions of Windoze.

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On Sep 4, 10:53 pm, jxro...@yahoo.com wrote:
> would you say? I used to be hard-core enough to run
> Debian on an ooold IBM PC of mysterious vintage, but
> I don't know if I'm up to another tour -- the current box
> is now running Windows 98 SE okay, has ethernet board,
> 384Mb memory, about 20 GB disk. Standard-issue
> old school (1999) right down the line, I believe. Any
> recommendations?


Put "linux distribution comparison" in Google search
box. Search. You will find numerous comparisons.
If you've already gone through the Debian learning
curve, you might want to exploit it now.

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:53:18 -0700, jxrodri wrote:

> would you say? I used to be hard-core enough to run Debian on an ooold
> IBM PC of mysterious vintage, but I don't know if I'm up to another tour
> -- the current box is now running Windows 98 SE okay, has ethernet
> board, 384Mb memory, about 20 GB disk. Standard-issue old school (1999)
> right down the line, I believe. Any recommendations?

You can run anything. 384 is enough RAM to run Gnome, I have FC 5 running
on an old 500MHz PIII laptop with 384M. It runs Firefox and Evolution
fine. If you use a lightweight window manager then the performance will
be better but it's not horrible even with Gnome. Try Fedora 7.