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silentraver:
Hey what up all,im new and dont know the first thing bout linux, not even wich one to download first. Im trying to get away from windows, because with the new windows xp , it sucks for resources! i have a 64 megabyte 566mhz intel celeron, integrated i810e graphics card, and it sucks playing madden football 2002 on it. i want something that doesnt hog up alot of memory on load and in the background while im playing this game, i cut down all but like 5 services in windows xp , and i still see slow downs in the game. would linux be a good choice to go to? and if so wich is the best to download. lucky i have dsl.

badkarma:
If you want to only play games, stay far, far away from linux (unless you're particularly fond of FPS games)

silentraver:
im planning on doing some programming to, but i also want to play games on linux, for one windowsxp hogs to much mem, im hopping my games would run faster on linux? and i did have half life and counter strike i wanted to play with linux to.

badkarma:
you can play games on linux, and imo they run a lot better too, however your selection in games will be extremely limited. I would also recommend getting more then 64mb of ram.

I believe you can get half life/counterstrike running with wine, though I wouldn't recommend it on a  celeron with 64mb.

However there are also some excellent freeware/open source games available for linux (find some of them at http://www.happypenguin.org)

silentraver:
im trying to round up some money to get more ram, not that much i know. yeh i know i need more of that most deff. what about mandrake? u think i can get half life, to run on that, and if u know , any os linuxes that would run madden? thanks for the info though.

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