Re: Compaq Presario 5BW120 - Recommend linux dist

On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 06:52:57 -0800, lrbtav wrote:

hi, i need a recommendation for a 600MHz compaq; I don't have an extra
Windows license so i'd like to use this to mess around with linux. Can
any of you recommend a distribution for a machine with the following
specs:

Slackware.

--
"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

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