-- Posted by matto at 8:20 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 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. -- Posted by 321go at 8:32 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 UR 1!NUX !5 73H 3V!1N355!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!!!11!! -- Posted by Narfle the Garthok at 8:51 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 If you want to learn anything, do not use SUSE. I recommend something basic without the pretty GUI. -- Posted by matto at 9:04 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 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. -- Posted by Narfle the Garthok at 9:11 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 Gentoo all the way, but I guarantee you will be like "wtf this is shit" -- Posted by 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. -- Posted by Narfle the Garthok at 9:25 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 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. -- Posted by 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. -- Posted by rand0mguy at 11:16 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 opensuse is good, i just installed ubuntu on my laptop although i sorta want to try KDE so i might download kubuntu -- Posted by 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. -- Posted by matto at 11:38 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 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. -- Posted by rand0mguy at 12:41 am on Sep. 6, 2008 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   -- Posted by matto at 12:56 pm on Sep. 7, 2008 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