Hello Friends, I had a home installation this weekend(for one of my friends), i have to describe her as a newbie/an expert in online chat and browsing and nothing else.
I downloaded my copy of gNewSense on 4th May morning, and made a cd. Tried on my desktop, and on my laptop in VirtualBox on top of Ubuntu. I had given only 256MB RAM and the live cd booted and worked very fast (great, Ubuntu Live CD's dont work on 256MB RAM). Then by afternoon i paid my friend a visit, i found that the system had only 256MB RAM(and that too shared with video, so usable 224~) so i decided to try out gNewSense. It did not disappoint me, it loaded and i could access all the applications from the live cd, with gnome2.22, metacity and all on a 256MB system(she had a plan to upgrade the RAM, and gNewSense allowed her to save money, but lost a business for the dealer :D) So now it was to decide which distro to install, well gNewSense, no doubt about it. And it was few hours of configuration(5.5hrs precisely), setting up webcam(Creative VF0330), kopete, ekiga, KMplayer, Swanalekha(for malayalam). Then about 1 hour of class how GNU/Linux works and she was fine with it. She wants to chat to her sister(VoIP and Video), so i recommened ekiga and created an account for her and taught her, how her sister could use ekiga from windows. And kopete for Video over Yahoo. Windows was very slow and also it showed 'Your windows is not genuine or you may be a victim of........', it made my task easier, she had Photoshop on windows(learning to draw), so i showed her GIMP and she was interested. Atlast, "anoop do i have to upgrade the RAM", "no need, do you feel the system is slow" "no" "i saved your 1000bucks, give me a treat" Lastly few words about Free Software, GNU and FSF. And I am really happy I gave a 100% Free Operating System to my friend. On older systems i recommend trying gNewSense Deltah 2.0, it's cool. Setting up Creative VF0330 on gNewSense or Ubuntu or Debian http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/index.php/Ov51xJpegHackedInstall I am Anoop Jacob Thomas from, Trivandrum, India, pursuing my final year engineering in Computer Science and Engineering. -- Anoop Jacob Thomas www.ilug-tvm.org _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
