On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:01 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Please suggest me a GNU/Linux distribution with following features:
> >
> > 1. After installing it with CD/DVD, most of packages available for it can
> > be installed from same or another CD/DVD. High speed Internet connection
> > should not be required for installing default packages available for it.
>
> Choose a DVD distro. Nowadays there are many livecd distros for Linux.
>
> > 2. It should not be much resource consuming. Should work on an old system
> > such as P-IV with low amount of RAM such as 512MB.
> >
>
> Debian or Slackware.



> OR i sujjest LinuxMint10
>
> > 3. Latest version of LAMP related packages should be available on it.
> >
> > 4. It should support Tata Indicom Photon Plus connection.
> >
>
> What does this mean? Is it an ethernet MODEM? USB is hard.
>
> > 5. Codes of common audio and video format should be available on it by
> > default.
> >
> > 6. Upgradation process of it should be easy with the CD/DVD of current
> > version.
>
> Codecs? mplayer can play everything but Debian and mplayer do not get
> along.
>
> I had trouble compiling the source. It was failing in some libavcodec
> header file.
>
> I wonder. If you can get some deb for it it will be good.
>
> Upgrading?
>
> Why?
>
> Normally I just reinstall when a new release happens.
>

regards,
Ashish Chaudhari
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