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Skitzy

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21. June 2006 @ 03:17

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Well, I've spent all night downloading, burning, installing, and updating my new OS. I chose SuSE thanks to some advice I recieved on AD, and its absolutely wonderful... I think it would perform better on this pc instead of the one I chose (this one is AMD64, and the other is an old p.o.s. celeron 533) The reason I say that is SuSE has packed the entire software department of circuit city into those five disc.... (which I love by the way) and thats w/o the add on cd... but SuSE in itself seems a lil resource hungry for the late model pc, I'll be adding it on my primary later because I know it can handle it.

Ok, heres my question

Does anybody have any reccomendations of a good distro for a low end model like the 533 celeron? I definetly want to keep SuSE but not on the clunker.. Its just too slow... and yes, I'm looking to completely remove windows on that model, unfortunatley I'll have to dual boot this one (cant lose AnyDVD)

For the rest of you still using windows and your here trying to figure out if you want to try linux... definetly, you dont know what your missing.. god knows I didnt. What linux gives you Bill would have charged you 3 years salary... and the sickening part, is its true

wow... and thats only one I cant wait to try another

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Skitzy

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21. June 2006 @ 12:24

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just wanted to say it seems to have sped up drastically... does linux get faster the more you use it? or did I lose too much sleep last night?

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Skitzy

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24. June 2006 @ 00:05

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its great actually... and its easy to use in general... I may still have alot to learn about it but already I'm in love.

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lecsiy

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2. August 2006 @ 12:47

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Lol who here thinks skitzy may have attachment issues??

Lol only kiddin mate!

Also were did you download it from as im willing to "take the jump" liek you were!

Lecsiy

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creaky

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2. August 2006 @ 14:46

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in response to the original question re a Celeron, try DSL Linux (Damn Small Linux), it's at 3.0.1, it's really smart. Another nice one (haven't tried it yet but a colleague uses it and he's well impressed), is Arch Linux, which is at 0.1 Release Candidate 3 (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions).
These and gazillions more versions of Linux can be found at www.distrowatch.com

I'm a Mandriva Linux freak myself (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions) but it's a little hungry also, hence why i'm looking into leaner Linux distros for some of my olde worlde machines

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DoubleDwn

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23. August 2006 @ 10:47

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Remember though, that you can compile a custom kernel specifically tailored to your hardware. It does help with speed, and resources as it does not load uneeded modules, etc.

~Rich

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