Comments on: What is the best Linux package and where can I download it?

By: Linux Ubuntu geek

Linux Ubuntu geek — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:17:06 +0000

I recommend Xubuntu as it is developed older boxes. Its the same as Ubuntu but demands less in the way of system requirements, and much of the information you would need can be found in the Ubuntu forums.

Xubuntu Link

Ubuntu Forums

Enjoy.

LUg.

By: srikar g

srikar g — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:56:14 +0000

Mandriva is the best distro thts available right now. You can download it at

By: Daniel Itoh

Daniel Itoh — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:20:16 +0000

GNU/Linux (is the correct name for the OS, Linux is just a kernel) is really easy nowadays, you are going to love it, will give new life to your PC (I’m running Ubuntu in a old P3 at 650Mhz).

As the previous answer said, Ubuntu is the most friendly distribution at the moment, download the LiveCD and try it before installing it works wonders, you can burn the image with and you get the CD from:

Another great distro is Fedora: but is not recommended for old computers.
If your computer runs too slow with Ubuntu try ArchLinux is really light:

I currently use Ubuntu and I love it, but have also used Fedora, archlinux, gentoo, mandriva (not so good), gNewSense (based on ubuntu), Debian (ubuntu is based on this one) and openSuSE, all of them are great but after Ubuntu openSuSE is the next best one, it requires less resources (as a default fresh install):

Good Luck! and welcome to the Free Software world =) (free as in free speech not free beer).

PS. For those who are curious:

By: Wilson

Wilson — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:47:46 +0000

ubuntu is the best linux distro I’ve used