installfest: RSVP

[bmike101 at cox.net]

I love mepis but I feel I want to try another distro. What better time to put a new one on than now (if you've read my problems) with an installfest this SAT. My question to ya all is which would be the best system considering the age of this box (97) for office apps and internet activity? I would love to learn more but don't really see the point of it at the moment. Currently I am out of work so as usual I would like to spend as little as possible in getting it going. I do love debian so perhaps genuine debian instead of the 'mini' debian (knoppix, ubuntu, mepis, any of the others).

This is my system (amazing that a thread would come up today asking how to querry the system- I didn't have to do it:!)

root at 1[hda4]# uname -a
Linux mepis1 2.4.22 #1 Wed Nov 19 13:13:23 EST 2003 i586 GNU/Linux
You have new mail in /var/mail/root
root at 1[hda4]# more /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 5
model           : 8
model name      : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping        : 12
cpu MHz         : 501.149
cache size      : 64 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr
bogomips        : 999.42
root at 1[hda4]# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           377        372          4          0          9        243
-/+ buffers/cache:        120        257
Swap:         1000          0       1000
root at 1[hda4]#