[CLUE-Tech] Total newbie here....it's not easy being green ;)

[Joe Linux]

Not to set off a religious war, but I would suggest you go with Mandrake 
9.1 and install it on your bigger machine.  Mandrake has a very good 
partitioning tool which will help you greatly.  Also I think at this 
point in time Mandrake is easier for someone just starting out.  The 
people who like Red Hat seem to be people who have been using it for 
several years and sort of learned the hard way from the beginning.  My 
feeling is that at this point in time the Red Hat GUI system tools 
aren't as complete as Mandrake's so you might be wanting to do 
something, and you can't find it in the Red Hat control center only to 
learn that it's not there yet and you have to do it through command 
line.  This doesn't bother the old time users because that's how they 
learned to do it in the first place.  Also I do prefer Mandrake's 
partitioning tool better than Red Hat's, but in the end they do the same 
thing.  I have installed Red Hat several different times, but never 
ended up using it.  My choices are Mandrake, then Libranet.  SuSE can be 
very good if it happens to install on your particular hardware.

e z wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> My name is Ed and I'm just getting into Linux a bit.  I have 2 
> questions that I would appreciate any help with:
>
> 1)I read somewhere that Linux will work on older equipment, and I was 
> hoping someone could tell me if my old machine would be adequate or 
> not.  It's an old Gateway with a 1Gb hard drive, Pentium 100 with 
> either 128 or 256 memory.
>
> 2)My current machine is an HP, 100 gb hard drive, Athlon 1.4 ghz and 
> 256k memory.  If I were to put Linux on here and keep windows, would I 
> have to partition my hard drive and all that, or would Mandrake/Red 
> Hat help me out with that upon installation?
>
> As I said, any help/insights would be greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks for your time,
> ed
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