Can you recommend a linux Distribution for me?

Well, I've always wanted to try out Linux as a learning experience and as something new. I also just got an older computer at a garage sale. It's got a Pentium II 266mhz processor with mmx technology, a 4gb hard drive, along with 80 mbs of ram.





What Linux distribution would you recommend to me? I'm looking for something that will run reasonably on the older computer and is a distrobution that can be used for general things, such as surfing the web, typing up documents and such.





Old versions are ok too, it doesn't have to be the most up to date version.

Can you recommend a linux Distribution for me?
Try using Xbuntu, it's a version of Ubuntu, but for older hardware. See here:


http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubu...





Main Ubuntu page:


http://www.ubuntu.com/
Reply:Hi,





You can look at DSL: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/





It has small memory footprint and it works reasonably well based on your system specs. Or, you can try Xubuntu: http://www.xubuntu.org/ -- Ubuntu but running on XFCE (a light weight window manager suitable for low system specs)











--Edward Choi
Reply:damn





thats one old computer





lol
Reply:Don't install an old version. There are new versions that run very well on older hardware. For a more in depth explanation, visit:





http://polishlinux.org/choose/linux-on-o...





Damn small linux might be the ticket:





http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/





For someone's personal experience with a comparable machine like yours, see:





http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/0...





CHeers!
Reply:if you're new to linux then I'de recommend





fedora linux


ubuntu


mandrake





if you're comfortable with linux then I would suggest you try out slackware, debian, suse