On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:01 AM, <pan...@glug4muz.org> wrote: > Hi all, > Please suggest me a GNU/Linux distribution with following features: > > 1. After installing it with CD/DVD, most of packages available for it can > be installed from same or another CD/DVD. High speed Internet connection > should not be required for installing default packages available for it.
Choose a DVD distro. Nowadays there are many livecd distros for Linux. > 2. It should not be much resource consuming. Should work on an old system > such as P-IV with low amount of RAM such as 512MB. > Debian or Slackware. > 3. Latest version of LAMP related packages should be available on it. > > 4. It should support Tata Indicom Photon Plus connection. > What does this mean? Is it an ethernet MODEM? USB is hard. > 5. Codes of common audio and video format should be available on it by > default. > > 6. Upgradation process of it should be easy with the CD/DVD of current > version. Codecs? mplayer can play everything but Debian and mplayer do not get along. I had trouble compiling the source. It was failing in some libavcodec header file. I wonder. If you can get some deb for it it will be good. Upgrading? Why? Normally I just reinstall when a new release happens. -Girish -- G3 Tech Networking appliance company web: http://g3tech.in mail: gir...@g3tech.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
