I started with a hand-me-down P4 with 512 megs of ram. I first installed Centos5. It worked well enough but after a day or two I decided I'd reload it with a few other distros. I'd be using this for a while so I wanted to like it.
I decided to download Ubuntu 7.04. It installed perfectly. Within minutes I had gtkterm installed and working. The installation went so well I installed a few other things like flash, mythtv-frontend and minicom. I was amazed at the ease of it all.
I am now loving Ubuntu. It simply works. The shop now has a fantastic system for running the mill and while it's cutting I can watch TV using mythtv-frontend.
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I liked it so much I just replace my old Mac G3 at home with a similar P4 running Ubuntu.
http://www.ubuntu.com/