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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.

On 25 Feb 2007 08:51:51 -0800, asc 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?

Yes. Using the search tip below I get

Results 1 - 10 of 284 for older machine "64MB of RAM" group:*linux*


I put for older machine in the first box
and 64MB of RAM in the second box
and *linux* in the Newsgroup box ( that's astrisk linux astrisk)


--------- standard search tip follows ---------------------

Please bookmark the following, very large,
Frequently Asked Questions (faq) Search engine:

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
key word(s) in the first box
*linux* in Newsgroup box. You need to use the two
asterisks around linux, pick English

If you want/need more control over the first box search,
http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html

--------- end standard search tip text ---------------------

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"asc" <adam.cheasley@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1172422311.199816.146580@t69g2000cwt.googlegr oups.com...
> 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.
>

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:51:51 -0800, asc 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.

Start your search here:

http://www.vectorlinux.com/

or

http://www.slackware.com/

Stef

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

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.

asc 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.

Want to stir up a real flood of posts? Ask for suggestions as to which language
to learn.

> 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.

All the Redhats up through 9 installed on a 10G drive. However since you are
just going for programming you can forgo any graphics interface so even the
latest Fedora Core should install. Simply choose minimum install and no GUI.

--
Hodie quarto Kalendas Martias MMVII est
-- The Ferric Webceasar
nizkor http://www.giwersworld.org/nizkook/nizkook.phtml
Mission Accomplished http://www.giwersworld.org/opinion/mission.phtml a12

On Feb 27, 3:31 am, Matt Giwer <jul...@tampabay.REMover.rr.com> wrote:
> asc 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.
>
> Want to stir up a real flood of posts? Ask for suggestions as to which language
> to learn.

I'm intrigued now. I'm probably going to learn Python, but if anyone
has any other suggestions I would be interested to hear them.

asc wrote:
> On Feb 27, 3:31 am, Matt Giwer <jul...@tampabay.REMover.rr.com> wrote:
>> asc 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.
>> Want to stir up a real flood of posts? Ask for suggestions as to which language
>> to learn.

> I'm intrigued now. I'm probably going to learn Python, but if anyone
> has any other suggestions I would be interested to hear them.

You have a very perverted sense of humor. Everyone knows the best language,
their favorite. Let the flood commence.

The traditional way is to start with Pascal, turbopascal.org, but after doing a
few basic exercises move on to more commonly used language. Pascal gives you a
straightforward introduction to structuring programs and the basic things you
will need to do in any language in a language much more readable than most.
Actually my first language was Fortran II before it was called Fortran 68.

One of the first things to realize is you do not want to reinvent the wheel
when programming. You are going to plagiarize intensely. The next thing to
recognize is that different areas of programming tend to have a most common
language. Therefore the question is not which language but what interests you
most and choose the most common language used in that field.

The third thing to realize is once you get into programming you will learn
several languages so what you pick now is not a final commitment. But if you do
steps one and two then you will have the motivation to keep at it and many
source code examples of how to do it to learn/copy/steal for your own projects.

--
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and not clothed." archliberal Dwight David Eisenhower
-- The Iron Webmaster, 3745
nizkor http://www.giwersworld.org/nizkook/nizkook.phtml
antisemitism http://www.giwersworld.org/antisem/ a1

On, 26 Feb 2007, Matt Giwer wrote:

> All the Redhats up through 9 installed on a 10G drive. However since you are
> just going for programming you can forgo any graphics interface so even the
> latest Fedora Core should install. Simply choose minimum install and no GUI.

I'm running Fedora 4 with X and a bunch of stuff (including both Gnome and
KDE), and I'm using 6 Gb of disk space.

--
Yves Bellefeuille
<yan@storm.ca>