Technical Help & Discussion > Apple, Linux & Open Source Software: Help, News & Discussion

Windows ME upgrade to XP or change to Linux

<< < (2/2)

JK:
Hi Sam
I have found SUSE 9.1 at a very atractive price. Would this be a good starting point?, it inculdes a try out cd and all the books.
 :?

sam:
SUSE is a very good, windows looking, Linux distribution. It works nicely when windows is dual partitioned so probably yes, however, make sure that it is a version that allows you to compile software - some of the free versions around that version didn't. By books which ones do you mean? I still suggest that you should start with one that doesn't involve having to install the OS, just till you get used to it. Also there are some good distributions out there, such as Fedora, which are windows esq and free. Saying this, SUSE is good and would not be a bad place to start.

If anyone is interested here is the offical SUSE webpage: LINK

Mac:
What is your hardware like? I upgraded a Packard Bell with a 1000MHz PIII and 512MB of RAM successfully. I had to buy a new modem though.

Clean installing XP is a better bet than upgrading ME as you can then re-partition and format to NTFS from scratch which is better than converting FAT32 volumes.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page