recommendations please ?

[pc-illiterate]

i want to start using linux and im tottally new to linux. i know nothing. i thought i'd come here and post my specs and see what you think would run best on the system i have now.

emachine t1100:
intel celeron 1ghz
256meg ram
20 gig hdd
gforce 4 mx440 vid-pci version
onboard sound
network everywhere nic

am i missing anything important ? id just like to find out what i can run on it. all i really do is play a few video games and burn music. i like to go on yahoo and talk to my friends. i also use utorrent [EDIT]. any help you can give me would most certainly be appreciated.

[saikee]

Just try any of the Linux Live CD

Puppy
Damn Small Linux
Slax
Sidux
Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubunbtu
PCLinuxOS.... etc, etc

I expect most of them work straight away.

You then decide which one (or ones) you want to install them.

[ehawk]

I would go with a full linux distro, and not consider puppy or damn small linux. I have nearly identical specs on a dell laptop, and pclinuxos, ubuntu, and simplymepis worked just fine. I would go with one of those.

[happybunny]

i put xubuntu on a Dell L400 PIII 700mhz with 256megs of RAM.

It's a nice install and should work fine, just be patient with it and it'll work out fine.

[mrrangerman43]

Yea I forth the motion, one of the Ubuntu's would work, or Debian Etch/stable.

[pc-illiterate]

thanks for your help guys. like i said, i know nothing about linux at all.im going to give this a shot and probably come back whining and crying that i did something wrong.i hope that isnt the case and thank you all again.

[mcwtlg]

I tend to use mostly old hardware 650 mhz to 1 ghz with anywhere from 256 RAM to 512 RAM. I have used mostly the *buntu variants with a good deal of success. Being rather new to *nix I have found it the easiest to install and the support forums are top notch.