Q: I am setting up an old Toshiba Satellite 305CDS laptop as a teaching / testing ground for linux. It is a:
P-133 MMX (as far as I can tell)
48MB Ram
4.8GB HD – 2.2GB for Linux (500 MB swap) 2.4 GB win2k
I want to use for multiple purposes and a suggestion of an OS needs to use.
-We use an IBM Unix server E at work and I want something to help me learn command line and thus having similar / same commands as Unix.
-I run a web server on win2k and eventually want to switch to Linux or BSD / Apache.
-The last time I installed RH9 GUI I put her and it was very slow. I want to avoid as possible.
-I currently have a DL of RH 6.2 and RH 9 but Im not part of RH or Linux is anything open.
Please guess which OS I use.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Sorry for not specifying before, I probably won't be using a GUI as this will be for test/training similar to our UNIX box at work (e-server AIX)
I will only be using command line.
I am going to DL one this week so if you have any more suggestions based on my new info (kicks myself), please post.
Sorry for leaving important info out!
I'd probably go with Debian then, if only cause the old BSD vs SysV stuff might cause confusion between Net/OpenBSD and AIX.
Re:Sorry for not specifying before, I probably won't be using a GUI as this will be for test/training similar to our UNIX box at work (e-server AIX)
I will only be using command line.
I am going to DL one this week so if you have any more suggestions based on my new info (kicks myself), please post.
Sorry for leaving important info out!
Re:Use a lightweight GUI rather than one of the DE's. For example, twm has consistently set standards for ugliness, yet is functional after a fashion.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
I am a n00b to linux. With my limited resoureces on processor and ram, will Debian work well or is there another OS that will work better?
The problem will be your RAM, that's very little to run any modern windowing system on, aside from that Debian or the BSD's will work fine, though of course not stellar.
Re:Debian'll do the job. I've got it running fine on my old P100 Laptop (40MB RAM).
Re:I am a n00b to linux. With my limited resoureces on processor and ram, will Debian work well or is there another OS that will work better?
Re:I'd go with Debian if you want Linux, or OpenBSD as my first choice for BSD, NetBSD being the second.
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