On 10/7/2010 8:19 PM, HORACE WILLIAMS wrote:
REQUEST BEST OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVES TO WINDOWS SYSTEM.
THANKS!
First, please turn off caps lock. Someone here has already
suggested this is taken as the email equivalent of shouting.
Second: You should evaluate several distributions then
answer the question for yourself. Someone already suggested
"DistroWatch" as a place to start.
Third, you don't give enough information for us to begin to
guess what might be a reasonable answer to your question.
For starters:
1. What computer system(s) are you using? (At the least
tell us what processor, speed, memory size you have.
If more than one, is are they networked?)
2. What do you use your computer(s) for? (I use mine
primarily for email and web browsing, with some music
playing, CD burning for the car, and a music notation
program from time to time to further my music
performing habit. I get away with some pretty old
hardware.)
3. What level of expertise do your users have? (I was an
expert when I retired in 2004, but as I age, I get
further and further behind the technology curve. I can
make no claim to any expertise now.)
Here is a subjective answer that may well not fit your needs
at all:
Ubuntu or Kubuntu, or other Ubuntu based distribution seems
to work fairly well here on hardware that is not
particularly new.
Thia machine runs XP SP3. I have an old machine (AMD Athlon
1 GHz, 700 MB RAM) with Ubuntu on it. It's slow but usable.
With Warmest Regards
David Teague
