Argon, my first and last (so far) machine, has been suffering shortage of RAM due to the immense Java and Apache applications running simultaneously in addition to the insanely greedy Firefox.

Today I bought Argon a 2GBs memory module running at 667MHz and I intend to double it very soon. I hope this small boost will whet Argon's appetite for the time being.

argon ~ # free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2024        711       1312          0        114        247
-/+ buffers/cache:        350       1674
Swap:         2925          0       2925

After getting my first computer, I was really unhappy with the result of my first attempt to install Linux. And after some retries with this piece of hardware I just wanted to share you what I came through: First thing I have to do is to thank Wakady for his comment since without it I would have stayed for long trying with FreeBSD. Now let's give you some real stuff. I installed openSUSE 10.2, FreeBSD 6.2 -RELEASE and Ubunutu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) on this machine and came with different results and I think they deserve sharing. You will find the first two attempts in older posts so I will go directly to the third one: