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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
