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Clair Ching wrote: | On 5/13/05, Dean Michael C. Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |>>Hardware: |>>Pentium II 233 MHz |>>2 GB |>>RAM 64 Mb |>>on board sound and video |>>external modem softk |>> |> |>Pretty old hardware they have there... |> | | Yup. Ye olde hardware... I don't think they have some cash to spare | for a new box. Not just yet. | | |>>What they want to do: |>>to record tapes to mp3 |>>web browsing |>>games |>>office suite |>>chat client |>>scribus |>>video and music playing capabilities |>> |> |>Ok, now that would be pushing it even with a licensed Windows |>installation. | | Games - there's always games on Emacs so I will definitely make sure | they have Emacs! <laughs> And there's a chat client there too. And a | web browser... But of course, Emacs is not for everyone. I remember | playing ZSNES ROMs on our old computer... That was sometime in my | early college days so my computer was similar to theirs. I was using | Windows 98 as my OS back then. I guess I pushed it... I watched | anime there and played mp3s. | | |>I'd suggest the lightest of all the major distros, which would be |>slackware. However, I don't think the latest distro would be very |>friendly with their hardware since there are a lot of bells and whistles |>already with the 10.x Slack. |> | | Hmmmm. Any other suggestions? |
Try VectorLinux. It's a slackware spin-off specializing in old hardware & it's geared towards newbies. HTH
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