[NTLUG:Discuss] Need Distro Recommendation, Please

[Brian Koontz]

Rick--

I don't want to start a religious war here, but for older PCs, I'd
recommend bypassing the bloat and convoluted installation processes
and go with Slackware.  Version 10.1 is out, it's all on one CD image
(provided you don't want or need the sources), and doesn't choke
during installation just because you don't have cutting-edge hardware.

We use Slackware in our Linux labs at North Lake College after discovering
RH, Fedora, etc. were just too picky about what kind of hardware they
wanted to run on.  Slack just works!

  --Brian

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 03:08:36PM -0500, Rick Matthews wrote:
> I have a couple of older PCs running Linux here at the house that 
> do a yeoman's job of providing the network with Samba shares, 
> caching web proxy, access control features, content filtering, 
> fetchmail retrieval of everybody's email, network caller ID, and 
> browser access to all stored pictures and mp3 files. Additionally, I
> always have a software project or three that I am working on (playing
> with).