Well as far as I kno Ubuntu is best linux with lots of features for the common first time users, as its GUI is the best. 256mb is very much ok for fedora. I haven't tried Ubuntu much but I have used fedora. Its gud but the multimedia section like viewing videos and hearing mp3 music is not much good in it as it never supports mp3 formats and only few video formats. If u really wana experience the free s/w power Ubuntu is very ,uch ok. Try fedora like fedora 10. Its good too.
-----Original Message----- From: ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com [mailto:ilug-...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kichus...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 5:27 PM To: Free Software Users Group, Trivandrum Subject: [fsug-tvm] Help needed in Linux installation! Mine is Intel Pentium4 system with 256 MB RAM, 80 GB SATA Harddisk! I was using WindowsXP since I bought this system. I attended the FSFS Conference and I now wish to leave windows forever! But when I installed Ubuntu 8.04, I faced some difficulties such as I can't view .gif files, some problem with he videos etc. My friend told me that Mandriva and Fedora are good since they have more eye candy and most codecs. But I don't have much configurations to install them and I can't easily upgrade bcoz the RAM is DDR. Also my internet connection is already slow but I felt a bit more slow when I installed Linux. So Can u specify any distros suitable and effective for my system configuration. Longing to migrate to linux! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
