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Dell and Linux
Hi Gang
New to board so applogies if making a request covered before
Present system ( I know its old but it works)
Dell xps t550
PIII 550
13.6 GB Hard drive
128mb ram (I am going to upgrade to 384mb)
Diamond Viper 32mb graphics card
100mb zip drive
DVD rom
17" CRT monitor
winmodem
O/S Windows 2000 Pro
I am interested in ditchin windows and running Linux, either SuSE or Ubuntu
Appreciate help/guidance
Rgds
snave27
New to board so applogies if making a request covered before
Present system ( I know its old but it works)
Dell xps t550
PIII 550
13.6 GB Hard drive
128mb ram (I am going to upgrade to 384mb)
Diamond Viper 32mb graphics card
100mb zip drive
DVD rom
17" CRT monitor
winmodem
O/S Windows 2000 Pro
I am interested in ditchin windows and running Linux, either SuSE or Ubuntu
Appreciate help/guidance
Rgds
snave27
- There is absolutely no reason to expect Linux will not run on your system. Actually older system seem to take to Linux better than new ones, probably because of driver availabilities. I have run Red Hat on a XPS D300 which is older than a T550.
Message Edited by msgale on 09-15-2006 04:03 PM
- I am in total agreement with msgale. I had an old XPS D333 running Debian "Sarge" and Slackware. While I am not a big fan of Ubuntu or Suse, either will most likely work well with your system and are good choices for linux beginners. While you are becoming acclimated to linux, you may not want to ditch windows just yet. I believe while installing, Ubuntu will automatically shrink your Windows partition and create a new Ubuntu partition out of the free space. You will be able to boot to either operating system. See the link below, it looks like a good guide for installing Ubuntu.
Installing Ubuntu
fudgieguys
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Posted September 15th, 2006 17:00