-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Check the ubuntu forums for media codecs You may also want to check the howtoforge for a walk through.
There was a mediabuntu project, but you should be able to get what you need for any *ubuntu. I am not sure what kind of Outlook functionality you need, but I use Thunderbird with the Lightening plugin. This gives me the mozilla calender integrated withing the thunderbird GUI. Kontact is also excellent, it just sucks for IMAP mail accounts, which is deal killer for me. 400 Mhz is a little thin on hardware specs. Under Windows you would not want to watch a DVD without some sort of hardware acceleration. Sounds like a candidate for DSL (Damn Small Linux) or one of the other small distros. TekBudda wrote: > I think I have having a brain fart here but I can't remember the name of > the ?buntu distro I am thinking of. > > Here is the poop. I am building a system for someone at work that is > relatively inexperienced with technology. She is used to XP at work > using MS office. WHen I got the hardware for her I told her that if > there is a CD Key I would load windows for her. There was not so I told > her I would use Ubuntu or similar. I showed her what it looked like on > my laptop and she seemed to be ok with that. > > The functionality I am looking for is obviously an office suite, browser > and other basic things. She did mention that she wuld like to play > around with editing pictures and maybe updating her web page. I would > also like to give her media fuctionality (mp3's, etc.), and something > Outlook'ish for organization as she also teaches after hours as well. I > believe she does use Instant Messaging as well. > > There are a few obviously things that I can thing if such as OOo, GIMP, > Firefox & Evolution, but I know the base Ubuntu doens't have the full > media functionality. Can anyone remind me of what that is? It installs > the extar codecs, flash, java, etc. I was also thinking of Nvu > (Kompozer) for webpages, but am open to suggestions. > > The machine this is going on is around 400 Mhz and likely 256+MB RAM > (depending wat I have around) and hopefully will have a CD burner in it. > There is also a possibility fo needing wireless as well. > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG6w/CwRXgH3rKGfMRApLBAJ0QR/w3KyxjsgKXK5P19Bo9VWMpngCcDXz5 9CSSuRkkCXCFOe4QMecjDB8= =tG9U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
