[Techtalk] Question on distro....

[Davis, Jennifer]

I can't help but recommend Slackware.  http://www.slackware.com.  It is very
uncluttered, configurable almost exclusively by /etc files and can be a very
small install if you want it to be.  

I'm sure Linux From Scratch is similar in that effect, but I haven't used
that distro.

Jenn




-----Original Message-----
From: Ms. Piglet [mailto:listpig at earthlink.net]
Sent: 2002 Feb 25 4:55 PM
To: techtalk
Subject: [Techtalk] Question on distro....


Sent this question last week to newchix which I thought was the logical
place, and got no answer whatsoever, so time to try the tech list....<g>

I'm about to recycle an IBM Thinkpad 365XD......

Trying to figure out a good major distro (but smallish) to install on the
Thinkpad for linuxchix coursework.  Don't want to use RH, simply because
that's Max (spouse)'s area of expertise, and I want my own territory. (That
may be
illogical and irrational, but there it is.....)

This box is a P120, 1.2gig HD, 32meg RAM, so size matters somewhat.
Smallest major to put on it that I've found is actually FreeBSD, but I'm
suspecting that for coursework I'll make myself fewer headaches if I stay
with linux.

I'm *thinking* that where I want to go is Debian potato, but I wanted to ask
and see if I'm missing something.  When I was working, my main desktop was
running Corel which is Debian anyhow, so I guess I'm biased that direction
already....

Suggestions? Help? I'm open......

--pig
-- 
Megan "Piglet" Zurawicz
listpig at earthlink.net
piglet170 at attbi.com

_______________________________________________
Techtalk mailing list
Techtalk at linuxchix.org
http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/techtalk