[olug] distro recomendation

[Charles Bird]

cool, thanks to all of you.  I am going to start trying out slack tonite and see what happens. maybe even recompile the kernel if all goes well. 


----- Original Message -----
From: William Langford <unfie at cox.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 17:55:43 -0600
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
Subject: Re: [olug] distro recomendation

> Charles Bird wrote:
> 
> >I have a 75Mhz PB with 131MB RAM, cheap sound card, and was wondering if any of u ppl know if it can play mp3s or not, and I was also wondering if anyone has a distro in mind that would work with it, I desire to have a very basic desktop and able to play mp3s. thats about it. 
> >Thx
> >  
> >
> If it's a Pentium 75mhz, it can play mp3's.
> 
> In reguards to which distro to use.. if your sound card is supported, a 
> kernel 2.0 based distro from a couple years back might be a good idea... 
> although with >128 mb of ram, you should have no issues with 2.2 or 2.4.
> 
> Again, if all you're doing is mp3's, a bsd, or an old linux distro would 
> do fine.
> 
> Slackware 3.x series comes to mind...
> 
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