Alright,
I picked up an old system from my brother last night as he has bought a new system to replace the aging beast I've now dragged back to my place.
I've decided I should put the machine to some use if possible, and the obvious thing I thought was to use it to learn Linux, so yes, the following questions will be from a newbie!
Basically, are there any system requirements for the various distros of linux? The old beast is Pentium II (not yet sure of processor speed as I haven't fired it up). But I'll take a stab in the dark and go with 500Mhz and 128Mb RAM. Will this be sufficient?
When downloading the distro to burn to CD, I assume I need the i386 version? I think I'll go with the Mandrake distro, unless anyone has a reason I should look at something else?
So in summary:
1. Are there minimum system requirements.
2. What would be the recommended distro for an old system
3. What type of distro will be best (eg: i386)
Any help greatly appreciated!
I picked up an old system from my brother last night as he has bought a new system to replace the aging beast I've now dragged back to my place.
I've decided I should put the machine to some use if possible, and the obvious thing I thought was to use it to learn Linux, so yes, the following questions will be from a newbie!
Basically, are there any system requirements for the various distros of linux? The old beast is Pentium II (not yet sure of processor speed as I haven't fired it up). But I'll take a stab in the dark and go with 500Mhz and 128Mb RAM. Will this be sufficient?
When downloading the distro to burn to CD, I assume I need the i386 version? I think I'll go with the Mandrake distro, unless anyone has a reason I should look at something else?
So in summary:
1. Are there minimum system requirements.
2. What would be the recommended distro for an old system
3. What type of distro will be best (eg: i386)
Any help greatly appreciated!