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Woo finally pulling out the linux again
Replies: 12 — Last Post Sep. 7, 2008 12:56pm by matto
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So It's been about two years since I last used linux for a significant amount of my computational needs... this year I'm taking AP Comp Sci and my interest has been re-sparked, so I'll be setting up a little server with this box I've been meaning to hook up for a while now to bounce code back and forth between school and home.

I'm thinking openSUSE...which I haven't actually used before but it looks cool.  Anyone have any suggestions or anything for a good distro for running a small little workstation/server on a relatively old 1.20GHz intel chip w/ 128MB of RAM?  I'd also consider debian or slackware if people think that speed will be an issue on SUSE.

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If you want to learn anything, do not use SUSE. I recommend something basic without the pretty GUI.

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Pretty much everything comes with X now.... which DE do you recommend?  Having a GUI doesn't mean I won't be using the shell for the majority of stuff that I do.

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Gentoo all the way, but I guarantee you will be like

"wtf this is shit"

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I'll give it a try....  I have a CD from when I played around with it in the past...so I'll just use that instead of waiting to DL SUSE.

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Quote: from matto at 9:18 pm on Sep. 5, 2008
I'll give it a try.... I have a CD from when I played around with it in the past...so I'll just use that instead of waiting to DL SUSE.

Disregard my last comments about SUSE. It is a decent distro I just choose to use shitty distributions for some reason because I end up learning more.

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If whatever you get allows for xfce you should use that because it uses fewer resources than GNOME and Kde.

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opensuse is good, i just installed ubuntu on my laptop
although i sorta want to try KDE so i might download kubuntu

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Quote: from rand0mguy at 1:16 am on Sep. 6, 2008
opensuse is good, i just installed ubuntu on my laptop
although i sorta want to try KDE so i might download kubuntu

Why not add KDE to Ubuntu and change which (GNOME or Kde) you use when you log in.  

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Quote: from espresso8097 at 11:14 pm on Sep. 5, 2008
If whatever you get allows for xfce you should use that because it uses fewer resources than GNOME and Kde.
I've used xfce before, I really liked it.  I'll probably use it.

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Quote: from espresso8097 at 11:21 pm on Sep. 5, 2008
Quote: from rand0mguy at 1:16 am on Sep. 6, 2008
opensuse is good, i just installed ubuntu on my laptop  
 although i sorta want to try KDE so i might download kubuntu

Why not add KDE to Ubuntu and change which (GNOME or Kde) you use when you log in.

If what I say makes no sense please excuse me, I am drunk.


good point. u drunkard  

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woo i'm compiling X

and it's taking forever on this 500MHz machine

but that was a fun install and i think i'm going to like this OS.  thanks for the suggestion narfle

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