Which Linux?

In most cases it's not the CPU that holds back a Linux PC but RAM. Granted Linux needs far less to operate than Windows, but the more RAM you have the better you experience will be.
Try and add more RAM to that PC, if you can get 1Gb of RAM then anything will run on it, but with 256MB of RAM you will need to stick to the simpler distros.

Well, and like I also said, it remains free, so download and experiment.
 
well there will be no more RAM, its ancient
 
great! all I need to do is find a CD now...
 
When I was limited with system ram I ran puppy linux. Getting the network up and running was a bit of a hassle, but it didn't take too long to figure out. It has a nice graphic interface and all the internet apps you need. It also runs decently fast on older machines. Download the live cd ISO, burn it to disk with something like magicIso or ultraIso and set your bios with the dvdrom as first boot device. boot into puppy and fiddle away. if you like it you can do a frugal install from within the live session by going to the setup wizard in the main menu.

good luck and have fun. Backup all your email addreses, documents and media files before you convert your hard drive if you decide on a full install, because it will reformat your drive to ext2 or 3... if you are unsure which one to use just choose ext2.
 
I think there is now a Ubuntu Puppy (based on Lucid) he may want to try--I am sure the setup must be easier than the original Puppy (network, etc).
 
if you are unsure which one to use just choose ext2.
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Unless you know how to check you file system manually after a power failure, etc. I would not recommend this.
Ext2 is not a journalling file system and therefore ext3 is far superior for day to day use.
 
thanks guys but I already downloaded xubuntu 10.04 desktop, just need to find a blank
 
There are lots of blanks on the forums, just look in the "Current Affairs" section and take your pick!
:D
 
i also need a blank.... a blank cheque... :-) that should just about sort out all the problems I have on puppy linux!
 
Oh shyte...
ok guys which file system is the best to use?
ext4
ext3
ext2
RieserFS
JFS
XFS
Fat16
Fat32?
 
ROFLMFAO!
... there are a rather lot of users out there who have got existing EXT2 filesystems. And more every day. And some of these EXT2 filesystems are getting really rather big. Even 24 months ago, there were people building 500 gigabyte EXT2 filesystems. They take a long time to fsck. I mean, really. These are filesystems that can take three or four hours just to mkfs. Doing a consistency check on them is a serious down time. So the real objective in EXT3 was this simple thing: availability. When something goes down in EXT3, we don't want to have to go through a fsck. We want to be able to reboot the machine instantly and have everything nice and consistent.

--Dr. Stephen Tweedie
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according to my research ext4 looks like the best?
 
ext2 is the worst case for power failures and the likes, it is not journalled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system

ext3 is the old reliable workhorse and solid as a rock under all circumstances, ext4 is the new kid on the block, still have to prove itself.
With the newer kernels ext4 has seen some teething problems in the performance sector, but I doubt anyone will notice it off hand, the performance hit is something in the milliseconds range.

I personally use ext4 on my desktop system, but if I had servers to maintain I would use ext3 purely because it is tried and tested.
 
I use ext4 and lost 60GB of data due to the gay journaling system. It apparently doesnt write the files right away or something and because I rebooted after I had "copied" the data, I lose it all. Grr.
 
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