-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:02, Shawn wrote: > I was thinking Suse or Mandrake would do the trick. Anyone have any > comments, or reasons I shouldn't consider these? I'd like to make her > Linux experience as smooth as possible. (oh, I don't have all the specs > for the box either, but I think it's a P300.)
depends on how much hard drive space she has. IME Mandrake fits neatly on a smaller disk (e.g. <= 3GB) , but isn't as swift as SUSE. SUSE wants more disk space, but is faster and kinder on the RAM. unfortunate trade off, by a trade off all the same. i would not recommend Red Hat as a newbie desktop unless you do some considerable tweaking. most people expect their desktops to play mp3s, for instance. no matter what you install, i would recommend grabbing OOo 1.1 and installing that as it is faster. i wouldn't recommend Mozilla at all. if you're going to be running KDE, she can use Konqueror. if GNOME, galeon or epiphane. perhaps install Pheonix as a back-up browser. i also recommend sticking to apps of one desktop or another, as that'll decrease RAM pressure and increase consistency. obviously there isn't much you can do about OOo or Moz apps, but for mail, etc. it really does make a difference on older hardware. > On a different note, I finally got Zope and Plone running, and my website whee! =) - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jjpO1rcusafx20MRAv2/AJ9L6z2DocigYqtJbs58IBTnn2xx+wCgr3nG ho5akYQVngQRYUuPAK4iCuk= =L3QB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
