Hi, Can anyone recommend a small but compatible Linux distribution?
To explain, we have a student radio station here at the University of Stirling, and we've got a knackered old PII 300 we use to provide web-streaming and automatic updating of our webcam, the only problem is that the damn thing keeps mysteriously crashing on us. Because of the peculiar geographic location of our studio, it's a real pain to have to keep driving up there and rebooting the machine, so we want to move away from Windows. My preference would be to invest in a spanking new Mac and just run OS X on it, but this apparently isn't within our financial budget of, um, zero. So I've been volunteered to try and sort out a bodged Linux solution. What I'm looking for is a small version of Linux which will provide good compatibility with Network cards, Sound cards and USB, but with low-overheads and preferably fairly easy to use (I've got some UNIX experience with OS X so I'm fine with user-admin and compiling and installing things, but of course the wonderful thing about Macs is that the hardware just works, so when it comes to things like drivers and network configuration I'm left somewhat floundering.) Any suggestions? I tried Debian the other day but I spent a couple of hours swearing and cursing but it just couldn't seem to recognise the network card, or if it was then it certainly wasn't using it! Thanks a lot. K -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
