Dear Kaushik, It seems difficult to run new versions of Linux in 128 MB RAM. Anyway, I was just looking at puppylinux site. Here is what the someone posted on site:
http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads/puplets/flexxxpup-v15-dice?cmt=true#comment-679 If you need old firefox, I have statically compiled working 2.0.0.5 version with Pango support which I compiled for Indian languages when it was not a default feature. Tarball is about 40 MB. You will get required Flash from Adobe. If not, I may have it somewhere. See if it works. Regards, Sameer Ingole. -- http://www.noroot.org -- Kaushik Ghose wrote: > Dear Sameer, > > Thanks so much for your reply! I ended up downloading kubuntu (I > thought it would take for ever, but it wasn't that bad) and DSL (Damn > Small Linux) and Puppy Linux. My parents' machine is a Celeron 1GHz > with 128 MB RAM. I couldn't get Kubuntu to be functional (the liveCD > mode booted up but it took so long to do anything, I stopped it) I got > DSL to work but couldn't configure PPPoE. Puppy Linux turned out to be > the one that worked out. The only problem with Puppy Linux seems to be > stability - the browser (both seamonkey and firefox 3) sometimes quits > all of a sudden. It might be a RAM issue. > > If you have any suggestions for a distro that will run on their > hardware and where it is easy to set up the following, I would be most > interested: > > 1. Internet browsing > 2. Import photos from a digital camera > 3. video conferencing > 4. organize photos > 5. burn stuff to DVD > > Thanks much > -Kaushik > > > > Sameer N Ingole wrote: >> Kaushik Ghose wrote: >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> I'm in South Kolkata close to JU and I was wondering if any one had >>> a Kubuntu CD >>> they could lend me? I'm in Kol for a few days and I want to install >>> a linux >>> distribution for my parents (they have been using windows 98 so >>> far). Win 98 is >>> getting too far out of synch (e.g. they can't install Firefox 3) and >>> I want them >>> to use linux, but I need a UI that is close enough to windows so >>> that they can >>> pick it up without trouble. >>> >>> Also, if I would welcome suggestions for alternative distros that >>> are close >>> enough to Win that my parents could use. >>> >> If its not too late, I have LFY giveaway DVD with *buntu (not CD) that >> you can borrow on Sunday 11th Jan 09. It has everything. If you can wait >> till Monday late evening (12th Jan 2009), I can give you Ubuntu 8.10 CD. _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss
