What distro of linux

[VaKo]

Max out the memory.

[sc0rpi0]

I have a similar situation. I have an early P4 machine with 256mb of SDRam. I was thinking ubuntu but the GUI seemed to only work with the live CD but not when installed on the hard drive. Should I try another distro or just upgrade the memory which isn't a big deal to do.

There's a neat little program by the name of Wubi (no joking).

It adds your choice of ubuntu on the startup menu. Like duel booting...only billions of times simpler.

If you decide you don't like ubuntu, just boot back into windows and uninstall Wubi like you would a normal program.

It will be gone without a trace.

Here's the download link:

http://www.download.com/Wubi/3000-2094_4-1....html?tag=lst-1

Hope this helps.

[thewhitecircle]

Although I don't have much experience to speak off, I like ubuntu with a xfce interface.

yeah xfce is really fast with a reiserfs/ext3/ext2  hard drive format would work great based off  the Ubuntu installation. 

question has anyone used XFS and tested the performance  i hear its a great file system for videos and large files. 

[SomeoneE1se]

I have a similar situation. I have an early P4 machine with 256mb of SDRam. I was thinking ubuntu but the GUI seemed to only work with the live CD but not when installed on the hard drive. Should I try another distro or just upgrade the memory which isn't a big deal to do.

There's a neat little program by the name of Wubi (no joking).

It adds your choice of ubuntu on the startup menu. Like duel booting...only billions of times simpler.

If you decide you don't like ubuntu, just boot back into windows and uninstall Wubi like you would a normal program.

It will be gone without a trace.

Here's the download link:

http://www.download.com/Wubi/3000-2094_4-1....html?tag=lst-1

Hope this helps.

wubi ftl