What you mean by everything?
But at least the bigger stuff included like pyhton(all type) and many more because my installation take about 8GB.

And for Debian,what is the function of the other 10+ cds?

This post has been edited by yuchankit: May 1 2007, 12:34 PM

i tried RH,Fedora,Suse,Mandrake...all gud for beginner but i think it eats some memory...a bit lagg

I agree.
But can someone please answer me why Debian have as 14 cds?

Arch Linux, speed is comparable with Gentoo Linux, simple and easy... but it sound like Malaysia less use this distro ... it is worth a Try.

install everything is stupid. you support to install the package that needed.

If we want to have minimal dependencies trouble, installing everything would help a bit.

And I've never thought that installing everything is stupid if I have the hard disk space for that.

Yes..Agreed

This post has been edited by UbuntuClient: Jul 6 2007, 03:36 PM

Since you're an Ubuntu "client", can try the Xubuntu or Ubuntu "Alternate CD" installation.
They are using significant less resource than the original Ubuntu.

The Alternate is for what?

Can run with minimal system specs.

But no GUI? Pretty hard for new guy like me..Using text only..

It's only for the installer.
Or else, you can try Xubuntu.

Actually for installation,you need only 1 cd.I think the rest are softwares or applications for pc without internet connection.All I need is to download using the application that I need.Here some guidance for ubuntu
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty

Agreed with tengkurex. All CD not necessary. You need install base system only. Other application you can use apt-get.

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Added on July 10, 2007, 3:11 pmHave you tried slackware or BSD? BSD using less memory but if you dont know the basic of BSD you will get headache.

This post has been edited by UbuntuClient: Jul 10 2007, 03:11 PM

Great list but do you have the list of PXE bootable OS?

One that well-prepared, ready to use PXE environment is Edubuntu. The other? Hum, you need to prepare it manually.

I have a IDT WinChip 225MHz, 32MB ram (28MB system + 4MB graphic) and 2.1GB hard disk. Which distro shall i go for? I want to install it to the hard disk instead of using live cd & prefer GUI. I read about Damn Small Linux & it sounds ok to me. what do you guys think?

After i reading through all the topics regarding linux, i feel like trying to install 1.. so i have a few question about linux...
I have 2 partition on my HDD, 1 partition i installed vista home premium.. the other 1 i plan to install linux..

1. can i just download the whole linux file n install it? or it need to be burned into a cd n make it bootable??
2. whats the difference among all those distro since they all r base from linux?? y some say is more simple, user friendly... etc?? is it different distro have different add-on?? how about the visual style??
3. after i installed linux, i need to install linux, i need to install another software for visual style?? cos i heard of gnome n KDE but i'm not really sure what it is actually....
4. The motherboard that i'm using now doesn't has the driver for linux.. so how??

thx for your advise... i'm really noob in linux as i haven't used nor do any of my friend is using it... so i can be quite new for me
thx!!

Well, I can't say that I know a lot about linux but I'll try to help out as much as I can.
1. A rule of thumb is that Windows does not recognize linux file types and partitions. Meaning after your installation you can see part of your HD 'disappear'.
2. You answered your own question The visual style is generally divided into KDE and GNOME. The visual style comes with the distribution that you install so do some research and look for the interface which you would be more comfortable with.
3. Linux drivers a basically easy to find. If you're not particularly fussy, and generic driver would work just as well.

For me I use my linux for programming purposes so it's mostly LiveCD or Red Hat Enterprise. I seldom use UBUNTU coz of the strange VI Editor (this includes PcOSLinux as well).

Hope this helps

ubuntu is the best distro out there..check www.distrowatch.com and you will see ubuntu is at the top of the list..