On Feb 26, 6:01 am, "Jonathan Zeppettini" <jon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 25, 11:51 am, "asc" <adam.cheas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I've decided it's about time to learn a programming language and I
> > believe the best platform to use would be linux. I've managed to get
> > hold of an older machine (intel celeron processor, 64MB of RAM and a
> > 10gb hard drive) and I'm just wondering what distro of Linux will run
> > on this. I'm sure I've heard somewhere that Linux can run on slower
> > machine because it's more light weight than windows, is this still
> > true?
> > Many thanks for your help.
>
> I'd recommend Xubuntu [1]
>
> You can check out the requirements here:http://www.xubuntu.org/get#requirements
>
> For a machine with 64 MB of RAM you will need to download the
> "alternate" [2] CD image.
>
> [1]http://www.xubuntu.org/
> [2] xubuntu-6.10-alternate-i386.iso

Thanks for the suggestions. I've had a quick browse through the
various sites. I think I may give xubuntu a try as I've heard some
good things about ubuntu from friends.
Thanks again.