Re: OT: Linux

Mandrake is, in my opinion, very good.
However it is optimised for the Pentium
unless you order, or download, a special edition.
Red Hat is quite good, SUSE also. 
Go to the website of whatever distribution you select
and check for hardware compatibility. That could be key.
Frank

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Reywob(at)aol.com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm looking at trying Linux for the first time, both as an alternative OS 
> instead of Windows and to learn how to set up a webserver (although this one 
> will not be connected to the internet).  In my local newsagent there are two 
> versions at the moment, Linux Mandrake 7.1 and Suse 7.0.
> 
> Which would you recommend?  It needs to be capable of running on a 486 with 
> 16Mb RAM
> 
> TIA,
> Peter
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Frank Arnold
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