Yet another noob question
anyway i got a new (old) PC the other day, a presario 7400 desktop. incase u dont know the specs (wierdo if u know them...)
K6-2 533
128 SDRAM
4.7 GBhdd
unknown grafixs and mobo
i know its a powerbeast and stuff but for 20quid, i couldnt refuse
anyway i want to install a linux release onto it so it can be useful.
it use to have WinME...but as soon as i got home i decided that WinME is the devil reincarnate (and the copy i have is in Chinese), so i got that off quickish...unfortunately i dont have the Disk for any copy of windows that i want to run on it.
The main purpose of this machine is to be a desktop with internet, word processing and other office apps. also if possible i want see if i can stream music and video to it from other computers on my network. Though if i dont use it as a desktop then I was thinking of making it a smoothwall server type thing.
Anyway Because it only has 128 RAM i dont think i can run a LiveCD to test out the release. also...i think that the grfx card borrows heavely from the sys RAM, which makes it really crap..with that inmind...can it effectively run a desktop? like gnome or KDE?
edit. i did look at the sticky but its a bit out of date
anyway i got a new (old) PC the other day, a presario 7400 desktop. incase u dont know the specs (wierdo if u know them...)
K6-2 533
128 SDRAM
4.7 GBhdd
unknown grafixs and mobo
i know its a powerbeast and stuff but for 20quid, i couldnt refuse
anyway i want to install a linux release onto it so it can be useful.
it use to have WinME...but as soon as i got home i decided that WinME is the devil reincarnate (and the copy i have is in Chinese), so i got that off quickish...unfortunately i dont have the Disk for any copy of windows that i want to run on it.
The main purpose of this machine is to be a desktop with internet, word processing and other office apps. also if possible i want see if i can stream music and video to it from other computers on my network. Though if i dont use it as a desktop then I was thinking of making it a smoothwall server type thing.
Anyway Because it only has 128 RAM i dont think i can run a LiveCD to test out the release. also...i think that the grfx card borrows heavely from the sys RAM, which makes it really crap..with that inmind...can it effectively run a desktop? like gnome or KDE?
edit. i did look at the sticky but its a bit out of date