What distro should I go with?

[Floppyman]

Hi all,

I have the following linux distributions available:

Red Hat 7.0
Red Hat 7.1
Mandrake 8.0

I'm gonna be installing linux as the only OS on this machine:

K6-2 @300mhz
128mb ram
2gig hdd
HP cdrw
S3 4mb AGP videocard
SB Live Value soundcard
Linksys 10/100 NIC

Could I go with RH 7, or would RH 7.1 or Mandrake 8 support more of the hardware I listed? Thanks in Advance for sharing your opinions and suggestions.

[DrZaius]

Hey Floppy,

Mandrake is generally regarded as the easiest Linux distro (in regards to setup and hardware support), so I would use that. The last version I used was Mandrake 7.2 and the install was pretty easy, had it up and running in about the same time as a Windows machine with no CLI commands needed. Hope that helps.

[Floppyman]

Thanks Dr. Zauis,

Have you had experience with Red Hat 7.1? I've used both Mandrake and RH in the past and it has also appeared to me that Mandrake seems a little easier/user friendly than Red Hat, but I also like Red Hat. Would RH 7.1 support all this hardware? If so, I might give it a try. Thanks again.

[lwlim]

Hello,
If possible,I would recommend you to install the latest version of RH which is version 7.2 because it included the Ext3 filesystem which is better than the old Ext2.

[Floppyman]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I would give that a try but I don't have high speed internet, so downloading is out. Does someone with a high speed connection wanna download and send it to me?...