5/29/2005 09:37:00 AM|||dalegaspi|||

Last week I decided to remove Windows MCE from my aging Pentium III 700 MHz computer and replace it Linux. I figured that I would use this as an internal server and I suppose that given the hardware, Linux would be the more optimal OS.

I did my research a few days before...and found out that there are more Linux flavors than acne on my face. The last time I mucked around with Linux, there were only two flavors to choose from: Slackware and Red Hat. Well, long story short, it came down to 3 choices: Suse, Fedora, and Xandros.

I decided initially on Suse, but getting the downloadable binaries seemed like a pain (i could probably attribute that to having Suse acquired by Novell). Fedora, though definitely a lot more stable than Slackware that I used years ago, was thought of Linux geared to the "hardcore" Linux user, which I'm not. Although I'm comfortable compiling and installing Linux binaries, I still don't consider myself hardcore enough.

So it's down to Xandros. Xandros was said to be the one of the easiest versions of Linux to install. They just released a "free version" of Xandros 3.0; otherwise I would have gone ahead with Fedora. The main difference between the "free" and "standard" version was the CD recording ability limited to 2x using the built-in CD-recording feature; which isn't exactly a limitation since you can always use third-party recorders like K3b and utilize the maximum speed of your CD-R drive.

Install Xandros was a breeze. No hitch whatsoever. And the GUI, though not as nice as OS X, is VERY nice.

More later...

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