[NTLUG:Discuss] Question...

[Greg Edwards]

D wrote:
> 
> Greetings everyone...
> 
> I have a very poor hardware sitting at my place.  P-I 133MHz -
> 32 Kb RAM 2GB HD and a 32X CDROM.  I have tried installing
> Redhat 6.0 but I couldnt get X to run on it.  So now I am
> planning on going with either of the following:
> 
> 1) Redhat 7.1/7.2 ???
> 2) Suse
> 3) Mandrake
> 
> Can anyone suggest me on which of the above is better?  I know
> there will be huge differences in everybody's opinions.  I also
> know that I will get answers like 32 RAM is too low, but this is
> what I have and I dont have money + source of money for
> upgrading hardware.  So if you were to suggest me unbiasly from
> your favorite, what of the above will be a way to go?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> -Dhaval
> 

RH 6.0 had allot of problems which improved with 6.1.  I'm partial to
Mandrake but that has more to do with having the binaries compiled for
Pentium class machines.  Most others, including RH, compile for 386
class machines.  I also like Mandrake's basic install and system setup
tools.  Once your past these features most distributions are pretty much
the same except for which package manager they prefer.  Mandrake should
run on a P-I with no problems.  But as I found out, it seems that as of
Mandrake 8.0 Cyrix 6x86 chips don't seem to get along well.  The again
this mat be a problem in the unoffical 2.95 compiler.

With 32M of RAM I'd suggest running FVWM or similar window manager
rather than KDE or GNOME.  KDE and GNOME can chew up some RAM with all
their goodies.

Your X problem could be video card support.  What card are you running? 
Was it listed in the X config tool (XF86Setup or Xconfigurator or ...?)
you were trying to setup with?

-- 
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
http://www.nas-inet.com