I'm sorry to rain on this free OS parade but modern graphical *nux distributions are created on the assumption that it has comparatively recent moderately grunty hardware to run on.
To get a decent graphical experience in Linux on this box is an exercise in masochism, and probably beyond Reg's skills. My recommendation to Reg if he is prepared to make the modest investment is to purchase a late model second hand box from someone like the computer broker. My other advise is to match the distribution to the same era as the computer (well sort of) and use a distribution such as Mandrake 8.2. My final observation is that Win98 is designed to run on Reg's machine specs. It may be best if this box is left to degrade into obsolescence with the operating system designed to run on its hardware. Cheers Ross Drummond On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:25, Reg wrote: > Well I just tried again to install Suse on my Celeron 333 and it hangs > completely when it gets to the point of checking for hardware. > > I like Suse as it's nice and graphical, but how does this lighter Free BSD > compare to it? I ean is it all text and command based or is nice and pretty > like Suse :-) ?
