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nvidia works good with suse once you get the drivers installed, which is a pain. ati also works good with linux. dreamlinux has an option during installiation that let's install the nvidia drivers easy. sled 10 works extremely well with nvidia cards, so i don't know what your talking about.
and yes 64mb on an old laptop, it's not the fastest thing but it works.
and yes 64mb on an old laptop, it's not the fastest thing but it works.
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If you're just starting out - looking to indulge into the Linux world, I recommend Mandriva (http://www.mandriva.com). It's got an absolutely amazing graphical installer, and a pretty slick packaging system. It's pretty much what a Linux newbie should use, IMO.
Once they get situated and comfortable mucking around in a shell, and have a half-decent understanding of how Linux/Unix systems are structured (ie. networking, the kernel, etc.), they should perhaps move up to a more...."hardcore"....distro, like Slackware, or even Gentoo (which I'm currently toying around with).
Once I finish up with Gentoo, I'm going to work on installing an OpenSolaris system (my *nix whistle was whet when my dad brought home an old SPARC station running Solaris 4 with the CDE desktop environment - I was about 6 at the time).
Once they get situated and comfortable mucking around in a shell, and have a half-decent understanding of how Linux/Unix systems are structured (ie. networking, the kernel, etc.), they should perhaps move up to a more...."hardcore"....distro, like Slackware, or even Gentoo (which I'm currently toying around with).
Once I finish up with Gentoo, I'm going to work on installing an OpenSolaris system (my *nix whistle was whet when my dad brought home an old SPARC station running Solaris 4 with the CDE desktop environment - I was about 6 at the time).
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Ok there are many factors in chooseing a linux distro 1. what you want from it 2. what platform! 3. speed!
a few very very good ones are fedora core, SUSE, Mandriva, Deian ( this is a little hard) these all are all in ones but very large iso's!
a few very very good ones are fedora core, SUSE, Mandriva, Deian ( this is a little hard) these all are all in ones but very large iso's!
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Originally Posted by nytrokiss 
Ok there are many factors in chooseing a linux distro 1. what you want from it 2. what platform! 3. speed!
a few very very good ones are fedora core, SUSE, Mandriva, Deian ( this is a little hard) these all are all in ones but very large iso's!
And besides Debian, all the distros you named require a 686 processor and at least 256 MB RAM to run them decently.
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not necesarily true, I'm running suse 10 very fast on a PIII with 128MB of RAM.
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Unless I'm mistaken, isn't a P3 i686 architecture?
I'm currently running Mandriva on a P2 450 mHz box, with 160Mb of RAM - and it run's fine. =D
And to further add on to what joeprogrammer is says, distributions "optimized" for i686 architecture processors are all well and good, but if you're going for speed, a distro like Debian - which uses an i386 optimized kernel - is slicker than snot on a doorknob. I've actually been hard-pressed to find a distro that's as "speedy" as Debian.
I'm currently running Mandriva on a P2 450 mHz box, with 160Mb of RAM - and it run's fine. =D
And to further add on to what joeprogrammer is says, distributions "optimized" for i686 architecture processors are all well and good, but if you're going for speed, a distro like Debian - which uses an i386 optimized kernel - is slicker than snot on a doorknob. I've actually been hard-pressed to find a distro that's as "speedy" as Debian.
Last edited by indienick; Aug 25th, 2006 at 10:34 am.
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