Will this freebe run red hat?
 

Duron 750
192 megs ram
5 gig harddrive

I'm not going to do anything with it as it was an old freebe, I just want to start learning linux os's and was wondering how it will run on something like this, If not Red Hat can anyone recommend something to start out with? I'm not looking for anything that runs off CD's. I'm looking for something that in the future will be a mini server and such.

Thanks in advanced

Shadowalker.

It should probably run redhat just fine. Things might be a little slow, but, yeah, you should be able to do what you need to. If you do a full install of Redhat/Fedora, then you probably won't have a whole lot of room left on the drive, though I'm not completely sure as I wouldn't touch redhat with a 10 foot pole.

I'm a Debian man.

Thing is i'm really wanting to learn to use linux, is there anything you can think of for a complete noob to use.?

For a new user? Mandrake, fedora, ubuntu, knoppix (if you're wanting to play with linux and not let it touch your harddrive, or you want to install knoppix to an hdd via cd).

For more experienced users, I would say Debian and Gentoo. Though, Gentoo is for freaks (thats for you Latch!).

I'd recommend Fedora. Those specs are actually pretty decent for a Linux box, except for the hard drive. They list hardware requirements as being:

CPU:

Minimum: Pentium-class
Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium-class or better
Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium II or better

Hard Drive:

Custom Installation (Minimal): 620MB
Server: 1.1GB
Personal Desktop: 2.3GB
Workstation: 3.0GB
Custom Installation (Everything): 6.9GB

Memory:

Minimum for text-mode: 64MB
Minimum for graphical: 192MB
Recommended for graphical: 256MB

Thanks for the help guy's. I'll give a few a try, THere is a hdd on sale near me for 120 gig for 40 bucks, I'll go check it out.

debian is teh sex. :p

I don't know if it'd be tooo terribly scary for a newb, one comfy with puters and such...

Honestly, that system is more than powerful enough to run RedHat (or whatever *nix you want). I've got an old Duron (even slower than yours) with a fair amount of RAM and a large harddrive that I use as a fileserver and router (though I run BSD!), and it performs flawlessly.

Good luck learning Linux! :thumbsup:

I have changed out the proc to a duron 1300, and i'm dropping in a 512stick of ram and 120 gig harddrive, and a cheap pci vid card. (the VGA connector on the board is dead) and run is as a server also. Thanks all for the help.

I do appreciate that you've stopped trying to push Debian as a good beginners' distro. Maybe there's hope for you yet! :)