What Linux Distro will support my hardware?

Question

intel core 2 duo e4400 2.0ghz
2gb ram
Asus P5GC-MX
Nvidia Geforce 7200 256mb ram

Answer 1

Most should. The easiest way to find out if you're going to have insoluable problems is to get your hands on a Knoppix livecd (either by buying the book "Hacking Knoppix" at Barnes and Noble or downloading the iso file with a bittorrent or through one of the mirrors they list at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html. Just boot it up and it does have better hardware detection than Ubuntu so you should hear the voice saying "Starting Knoppix" after about eight minutes (CD drives are slower than Hard Drives). If you can boot it up you can usually run any other Debian (such as Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint or MEPIS), Fedora, or whatever. Mandriva has always given me X-Windows problems and I've never (even when following instructions) been able to disable X-Windows long enough to run xorgconfig.



Pretty much any distro that works should work on the hardware you're describing though. And even though Ubuntu is easier to use than Debian, Debian is usually easier to install. The only catch is, instead of running "xorgconfig" you wasnt tto open a comand line window and type "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" if X Windows doesn't start up after you reboot.



With Fedora you should just get it.

Answer 2

Those are very good specs for Linux. Any popular distro will work as long as they support Intel CPU's. So when you are looking to download, make sure you download the "i386" version, so that it works with your CPU architecture.

Answer 3

You didn't mention the hard drive, is it SCSI or SATA? How many GB?

Probably any distro will work. Most of them now have live CDs or DVDs so you can try them without installing.

Answer 4

You should try Ubuntu. It's the perfect OS for newbies, for pros, and everybody in between. The site is here http://www.ubuntu.com/

Answer 5

www.google.com "yourspecificcomputermodel linux" should tell you.