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Old 24th February 2008, 12:45 PM
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Can anyone recommend a good linux?

I have acquired an old computer and need it to run on Linux. I plan to just do downloads. Anyone know? Thanks
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Old 24th February 2008, 01:02 PM
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If it is a old, you can try to run Ubuntu or Kubuntu on it.

I have been running OpenSuSE 10.3 for a quite while, I loved it.
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Old 24th February 2008, 01:08 PM
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It's a slot 7 cyrix and an AT case/PSU, so it is quite old.
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Old 24th February 2008, 05:58 PM
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Have a look at this article.

http://www.linux.com/feature/52134
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Old 26th February 2008, 07:54 AM
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They seem pretty good. I'll have a look, thanks.
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Old 19th August 2008, 10:58 PM
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First distro I used was openSUSE well technicly first was slackware but its not the easiest so went to openSUSE. Loved that great distro, then moved to Ubuntu too easy really.

I settled on fedora core for quite a while before I moved to OSX
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Old 20th August 2008, 12:00 AM
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CentOS, is also a good one. Has a nice combination of easy for beginners / full of tools for more advanced users.
Also fairly nice build of linux, very stable.

www.centos.org - The Community ENTerprise Operating System

But do note, that Im only recomending that on it being a sever os, suppose it could be used as a desktop too.
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Old 28th September 2008, 10:59 PM
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Hi Spleenharvester,
I can only tell you that I am running Kubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) and it really works wonderfully for me. I also downloaded all the programs found at the following URL Maybe you would like to try it.
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