So i'm back after a long departure...

[vbp6us]

Hi everyone. For those of you that remember me and the old crew with the Off topic forum, i'm back.

I'm really out of the loop so someone please fill me in. What is a good distro now a days that is LIGHT and easy to use. I was using SuSE 8.0 at the time and bought 9.0 (i think) on ebay but seemed to have lost the CDs so I need a good free light distro.

Thanks guys/gals.

Ps: this is going to be for hosting a small game server, if you wanted to know. I know knopt will be all over this one. :D

[Rinias]

I'd suggest Slack...

Of course, I'm getting to the point were I suggest Slack for everything- cause it can do everything!!! As for light- what do you mean?? If you don't want GNOME or KDE (and Qt) then you can just download the first Slack CD and forget about the second.

If you mean you want something _really_ small, then I would say DamnSmall, Feather or perhaps Dillo. Though there is ZipSlack... :D

Well, that's just my coupl'a' worthless copper pieces...

[loopback48]

This suggestion is not a light distro but it is free and with the equipment you have, Fefora Core 2 just might be what you're looking for. I have a 550 Mhz processor with 256 mb of ram. It runs quite nicely. Check it out. I did loaded FC2 on a machine with the same speed processor but only 128mb of ram. Just too sluggish. At the moment the PC with 128 MB of ram has Slackware. While I haven't figured out how to manipulate it, it is very fast considering what it lack; enough ram. As far as the 'light distros' are concerned, I just don't care for them. There is a nitch for them, yes, but they don't have what I want.

[vbp6us]

Ok, after some searching around i've come down to the following distros:

Knoppix
MEPIS
Suse 9.0

What are the pros and cons of each of these? I know SuSE is not exactly 'light' but it's one I'm used to using so I don't mind a little bit of lag. :)

[Syngin]

Any non-bloated, Debian based distro should serve your needs.