On Monday 27 March 2006 07:51, Robert Fisher wrote: > On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 7:44 am, bruce wrote: > > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > >On Sunday 26 March 2006 17:55, bruce wrote: > > >>My son is using Kubuntu at the moment, but gentoo is better, > > > > > >Yes, While we think Gentoo is better, it does have a few > > > disadvantages for some people. > > > > > >>so will come with his laptop > > > > > >For what purpose does your son want to use Gentoo Linux? > > >hes at uni,needs office ,e=mail, browser,and music player > > > > > >>?ok? > > > > > >Hopefully, what make and speed is the laptop? > > >compaq,1.2g > > Perhaps we should ask... > > What make, model, speed, hard drive and RAM? A 1.2GHz box will run Gentoo ok, but you are correct to ask about available memory. OpenOffice is a memory hog, and needs 256Megs for half decent performance. 128Megs in an _absolute_ minimum. KOffice is nothing like as memory greedy as OOo. The disk size required is dependent on the amount of data storage needed.
> Does he understand the instructions at > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml He goes to uni, so I suspect that there's a pretty good chance that he's sufficiently literate to be able to read the handbook. > because Gentoo is not for newbies to install. Indeed, but isn't this the reason we run the MiniFests? He only wants a pretty bare-bones install. Base KDE + KOffice, possibly OOo and a media player such as juk, or AmoroK, should fit the requirements. http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9939&PHPSESSID=68fa00154187642101776b27827a1fd7 I just hope that the sound system hardware is compatible. If sound is working ok under KUbuntu, then I do not forsee any problems. -- CS
