My computer is pretty old. It has a 37GB Hard Drive, 512Mb RAM, and an AMD Athlon XP2500 519MHz CPU. I am running windows XP right now and have used up about half of the Hard Drive. I have burned several Linux Live CD distros and they were all pretty slow. I tried DSL and Puppy Linux but I didn’t like them. I want to try and partition my hard drive and do a dual boot. What linux distro would run well on my laptop? Ubuntu? Fedora? Mandriva? Or any other distro?
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i used to format and change the size of partitions every month to try different flavors of linux and my hard disk developed bad sectors and i had to send it for a replacement,at the moment i am using mandriva live cd to run basic stuff as i don have a hard disk
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I’ve decided I want to help people discover Linux by providing live mini-CDs, so I’m trying to decide which version would be best. I would have liked to use (K)Ubuntu, openSuSE or Mandriva, but live and mini are rather mutually exclusive with those distros.
So, I’m looking for advice on what Live Mini-CD distro would be the most user friendly. I’m aiming at the average Windows user, so it should have a smart DE with, at least, OpenOffice.org and the GIMP or similar, with some multimedia suport out of the box.
I know this might be asking a lot from a mini-CD but I put nothing past Linux developers. So, what provides these features with no need for user expertise?
just tried out the live cd 64 bit version of ubuntu 8.04 I think it is,but anyways the os doesnt pick up my logitech rumble pad 2 and my mandriva spring 2008.1 does.id really like to use ubuntu if it was compatible with my controller.any ideas how i can configuare the controller?thanks
my controller is logitech,and in other words anti linux,they will provide absolutely no support for linux
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when i put the live cd on this pc when it loads it only shows white text with black back ground.
on another pc it does shows a facy graphic progress bar
how do i get it
