i know this thread comes up once a month...but anyway. I picked up a PC at CACRC for my mom, as she 'wants the internet at home' (yes, the whole internet). It's a P3 500, 128m, 13g drive. I'll probably up the memory to 256m or 512m. Rather than me cleaning up ratware on a windows box once a week, i want to set her up with linux and (mostly) forget it. She knows how to operate a web browser and a mouse and that's all she needs to email Oprah. Might use open office occasionally, and some of the simpler games.
Any distro suggestions? It's an old PC, so nothing too demanding. One thing i'd like is for all the common firefox plugins to work out of the box, so i don't spend a lot of time getting it going. is there a decent mplayer plugin that works out of the box? will it come with shockware, realplayer, and all that stuff? ray
