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Sickboy
02-01-2010, 04:17 AM
I'm looking for a Linux distro to run on a second machine. All I need is a desktop and the capability to run OpenOffice and Thunderbird.

System Spec:-

AMD Athlon 64 3200
2Gb DDR400 RAM
80Gb HDD

I'm currently using Ubuntu 9.10 but I'm finding it a bit slow. Any recommendations?
t34b4g5
02-01-2010, 08:46 AM
Greetz.

personally i would either go Slackware or OpenBSD. Ir really depends on how deep you want to jump in the *nix pond. ;)

Suse linux is a nice distro and will run rather smoothly on your system setup also. :)
Sickboy
02-01-2010, 09:10 AM
Thanks. I'll have a look.
gwlogue
02-23-2010, 08:16 PM
I'm running Debian (Lenny).
cdroman
02-28-2010, 09:11 AM
http://linuxmint.com/ :)
t34b4g5
02-28-2010, 05:16 PM
:D what a name for a *nix Distro. While browsing the site i wanted to have a peppermint hehehe
cdroman
03-01-2010, 05:31 PM
pretty well all the names for linux distros are cheesy; i.e. "slackware" etc. :t
t34b4g5
03-02-2010, 01:24 AM
pretty well all the names for linux distros are cheesy; i.e. "slackware" etc. :t

Never considered slack to have a "Cheesy" name. i've always found solaris name to be different.

always get it confused for solarium for some odd reason :rolleyes: