Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !

2008-09-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 08 Sep 2008 7:17:56 pm Karanbir Singh wrote: benedict nicholas wrote: Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station with 300MHz,128MB RAM 10GB hard disk. We are trying to convert them intosome flavour of linux. Open Office gcc are the only two packages we are

[Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !

2008-09-08 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station with 300MHz,128MB RAM 10GB hard disk. We are trying to convert them intosome flavour of linux. Open Office gcc are the only two packages we are going to use since it is a first year lab. It works well with FEDORA 9 but

Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !

2008-09-08 Thread Kunchana Mathota Arachchi
Try debian 3.1 Sarge.. It might work well. or els you can try DamnSmall Linux or puppy Linux. good luck On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:39 AM, benedict nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station with 300MHz,128MB RAM 10GB hard disk. We are

Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !

2008-09-08 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, benedict nicholas wrote: Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station with 300MHz,128MB RAM 10GB hard disk. We are trying to convert them intosome flavour of linux. Open Office gcc are the only two packages we are going to use since it is a

Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !

2008-09-08 Thread Parthan SR
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Basically, the idea is that all the remaining machines are installed in a way like the first one and the installation of these remaining machines is automatic. You can also make use of tools like Clonezilla, which can take a snapshot of your hard disk after you

Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !

2008-09-08 Thread vivek khurana
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:09 PM, benedict nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station with 300MHz,128MB RAM 10GB hard disk. We are trying to convert them intosome flavour of linux. Open Office gcc are the only two packages we are going

Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !

2008-09-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
benedict nicholas wrote: Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station with 300MHz,128MB RAM 10GB hard disk. We are trying to convert them intosome flavour of linux. Open Office gcc are the only two packages we are going to use since it is a first year lab. It works

Re: [Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !

2008-09-08 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: the 128MB of RAM looks a bit limiting. Have you considered using a LTSP or a NX based setup ? How times have changed! In 1996 someone challenged me to run GNU/Linux with X, Emacs and TeX/Xdvi on a 486 with 4MB of RAM. The challenger lost! I