On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:36, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > I have just been given an old computer and I thought I could use it to > learn Linux on It has 32 mb ram, 4 gb HD, and 166 cpu While a simple Linux will run quite well on that kind of hardware, if you are going to do anything more than trivial things it would be a good idea to get some more memory. In effect 64Mb is a minimum. I ran a small web server on just such a machine for many years. The FVWM window manager goes quite well, but KDE's bloat is not really appropriate at all.
> Any ideas on what os I could use to learn Depends where you are at and what you want to learn. Linux From Scratch and Gentoo are "jump in at the deep end" approaches. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
