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Old 04-09-2007, 03:03 AM     #1
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can anyone tell me wats the best version of debian to download for an old gateway solo laptop with windows 98 and a pentium 2 processer and where/how to get that version of debian linux
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Old 04-09-2007, 04:23 AM     #2
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I would just get the latest stable version for i386 (think it's at 4.0 now).

Look here for download info: http://www.debian.org/distrib/
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Old 04-09-2007, 03:33 PM     #3
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http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

this is usually a better choice
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Old 04-09-2007, 09:35 PM     #4
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http://distrowatch.com/

various distros
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Old 04-13-2007, 03:47 AM     #5
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Since you have a computer that old, you should run DSL (damn small linux) it will run faster than old distros of debian can.
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