Linux Mint 7 and Antix M8-2, the story of change.
I have an old pc, it's from 2005. (2.4 Ghz P4, 512MB RAM, 80GByte HDD and an 64MB nvidia graphics card.
I mostly use Linux mint, on all my PC's. At school via a USB stick, and at work via mint4win. But on my home PC it was getting rather slow and hoggy.
I knew it was time to switch. On my netbook (Acer aspire one with 8GB SSD) I already did a ubuntu alternate commandline install, and with icewm on it it is very very fast.
I first looked at debian. I love the apt-get system, and I cannot get used to yast or urpmi like things from mandriva and openSUSE. So my choice should be a debian based distro.
Now comes the big problem. I do not have internet acces via the cable or ADSL at home. I have a 3G modem which I use for internet acces. Mint and ubuntu have networkmanager which lets me connect without installing anything. (Which is almost not possible if you do not have internet).
Now on my netbook I use wvdial, which works like a charm. I've tried UMTSmon, but doesn't work and i'm to lazy to find out why. I just want it to work.
So I was looking for a distro that would run fast on my main PC, and has built in 3G functionality. Not much choices remain.