On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 12:10, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 09:33, M.Schild wrote: > > Hello, > > A friend just called. She was running Win XP on a Packard Bell Easy One > > Silver 2101 and it crashed totally. I have been trying to convert her to > > Linux but before installing it, I would like your opinion. > > From what I found out on the net, her laptop has: RAM 256Mo , 1GHz ,HD > > 20 Go. > > What version would be best, MDK 9.1 or 10? Any foreseeable problems?( > > she would assassinate me if things went ( more) wrong. > > Thanks for your help > > Maryse > > > I would suggest you go over to > http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html?PHPSESSID=8fb36aeaa7ea05b6eacff6cbbc718acb > > and get yourself a copy of PCLOS. > > PCLOS is a bootable linux liveCD based on Mandrake 9.2 made by a guy called > Texstar. > Tex has for many years produced RPM packages for Mandrake, and now he has > forked off his own distro. > > What is really nice about PCLOS is that you can boot it from CD just like > knoppix and it comes up as a Mandrake desktop with everything already > preconfigured with Nvidia drivers, Acrobat, Java etc, and with online update > sources predefined. (Tex uses Synaptic instead of rpmdrake for updates) > > Tex has bundled in a sensible selection of applications all ready to go. > Perfect for a Linux newbie. > > If your friend likes what she see. It is real simple to install PCLOS to hard > drive as a dual boot with Windows. Or alternatively you could proceed with a > standard Mandrake install knowing that if PCLOS runs then Mandrake will also > install OK. > > > I believe in the future all Linux distros will install like this. > > derek
I'd go along with this suggestion, but I forgot until it started) it will take maybe 6 times longer to load as it comes from a CD not hard-drive. The other person wasn't impressed. Once applications are in RAM it goes well, just the starting up. -- pm ---- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes
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