Linux!

[GravityMX]

You're wanting to use a graphical interface with that PC?

As in, you willing to use a DOS style interface, or do you want a Windows style interface?

I would prefer a GUI over command prompt, and I assume the commands are different than Linux...right?

Using the 166 for a server would be pointless, since I only have and use one computer. My friend just installed Redhat9 on his server so I will probably get some help from him too  

[Louisiana Night]

Well, a graphical interface will probably use up a good deal of your resources.

The commands are different, but MUCH easier to learn than DOS commands(Linux only requires you to fill in enough of the command/directory, so that it can find the command/directory you want).

Here's what I consider to be the best distro for what you want, though I've never tried it myself(CC probably has a better idea of the best distro for what you want).

Slackware_info

[GravityMX]

What if I went back a few versions of Redhat, say ver3 or 4? Would this be small enough to fit, and run smoothly?

This is my first time talking about linux so all these names are confusing comparred to windows. Just post a link for all the commands (since I would'nt know where to go) and I'll take a look. If I find them easy to understand, then I will take it on.

p.s. does any1 know where my avatar went  

[Louisiana Night]

You could probably get away with using the latest version.

You just wouldn't be able to use all the fancy features(like most Linux distros).

As far as the commands go, that depends on the packages you have installed(they make up the majority of the commands). So if I were you, I'd get a Redhat distro, and buy a book on it(if knowing all the commands is important to you). It won't tell you all the commands, but it's close enough.

P.S. Remember Linux is case sensitive(as in, use the EXACT case of letters).

[GravityMX]

Sorry to bring this thread back....

I tried my old computer, didn't turn on so I didn't worry too much about it. Gonna look for a laptop to through Linux on hopefully soon.

I found a great tool....
Linux Distro Chooser

[Louisiana Night]

Sorry to bring this thread back....

I tried my old computer, didn't turn on so I didn't worry too much about it. Gonna look for a laptop to through Linux on hopefully soon.

I found a great tool....
Linux Distro Chooser

Interesting...

but I got an eightway tie ( 63% ).

and I use 3 of them ( SuSe, Mandrake, DS ) .

[Petter Holmberg]

I recently installed Fedora Core 3, also titled Heidelberg, on my PC, along with Windows XP.

The installation process itself was a breeze. No harder than installing Windows actually. Fortunately I had some free space on the hard drive that wasn't formatted yet.

The only problem I had was to make the dual booting work. Apparently there is a problem with Grub in Fedora Core 2 and 3, that makes it unable to work properly if you've installed your OS:es in a certain way, and you have to do some manual work to get it working. It's recommended that you have Fedora's boot partition at the beginning of the hard drive. Otherwise you might not get the dual boot to work right away. For me this was not an option as I already installed on a hard drive full of stuff that I couldn't remove, and I had a lot of problems. Actually, I only need Linux temporarily, so I settled for creating a boot diskette. It's not that pretty, but rather having something that works for now than to risk messing up my precious files by experimenting more with the boot sector.

[Louisiana Night]

deja vu

[GravityMX]

This is impressive, more the reason to make the change  

Shutdown after 6 years 2 months 25 days: 2.0.36 declared stable!

[copycat]

CC, since you mentioned using Konqueror, I'm guessing you use the KDE graphical interface. I think it's better than Gnome, but most people I've met online, prefer Gnome over KDE. What do you think?

I did? Must've been a long time ago then, because I've been using FireFox for a long time now. Kde was the default, and until now I see no reason as to why I should try Gnome.

(CC probably has a better idea of the best distro for what you want).

Heh, I only know of a few distro's, so I might not be the best source for that.

As far as resources go, BOINC is constantly pushing my processor to the max, so I doubt X has much left. Anyway, here's a 'top' of my current situation. Note that the BOINC-application is running a service that's not viewable with 'top'.

[racx_00]

Interesting...

but I got an eightway tie ( 63% ).

and I use 3 of them ( SuSe, Mandrake, DS ) .

I got an eightway tie aswell (81%)

[copycat]

According to the distrowatch, according to the answers I gave I should've picked Debian, but then again, there were some questions on which none of the answers suited me so I just picked one at random.
Just took a look at Debian for AMD64 (my cpu),:two DVD ISO's? My download limit can't take that, if I want to have anything left for the remaining 30 days.

[racx_00]

The ones that didn't have answers that suited me, I just left blank didn't select any answers

Maybe give it another try and leave the ones you don't answer blank

[copycat]

Fiveway tie: Ubuntu, Debian (still inthere), Damn Small (never heard of that), Beatrix (the only Beatrix I know of is Queen of the Netherlands), and Ark (unknown to me). Ubuntu is linked to Debian, so that's not surprising they're tied. Maybe I should give that Ubuntu CD that's lying around somewhere a try on (yet) a different partition, or maybe I could just run the Live-CD.