Didn't say if you wanted to run a GUI or not.
If you want to run console, LM will do fine. I like console mode, wife
and son like KDE, we compromise with Mandrake and it does what we all
want.
Your older machine should do a good job with it. If you are not using a
pentium processor, then maybe an older version of Mandrake, say a 5.1 or
5.2 that wasn't optimised for 586 so much.
During the custom install, just choose to not install the GUI. Maybe
later you might look at an X GUI that is small like fvwm or something
like that.
This way you run the latest, while still doing it "Your Way". That is
what linux means to me, anyway.
Ron
Toyswins wrote:
>
> I'm not an expert by any means but a couple of years ago I had a copy of
> Red Hat 5.1 which installed just fine on a 486/66 with 8 Mb RAM. It was
> awfully slow and the hard drive was small, don't remember how small. No
> GUI loaded nor much else, but it loaded. Sorta' like DOS, you can load
> a minimal install and it'll work, but not much else.
>
> B. B.
>
> John Connell wrote:
>
> > Hi All!As much as I would like to use LM on my "new" machine I will be
> > unable to. (33mHz, 16RAM, 350HDD)Can anyone suggest a good "text
> > based" version of the Linux OS? Appreciate it much!John Connell
> > Multimedia Team Leader
> > Vineyard Christian Fellowship
> > Milan MI 48160
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
