-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 08:43:18PM -0500, Noctaire wrote: > I have an old PII-350 here, complete system, so I thought I'd set it up with > Mandriva and give it to someone who could really use it. (In this case, a > single mother trying to work her way through school with classes that > require her to use a computer that she does not have.) > > The system will be used mostly for writing papers and the like, a bit of > surfing the 'net and some e-mailing. I'm figuring OpenOffice, Firefox and > Thunderbird. I'm going to set it up to use the KDE environment; seems > fairly friendly.
Is she totally new to computers, or used to MS systems? There is printing of course. Also some schools wind up sending students things with weird formats--my wife, using a Mac, had to download a program to view some files that her teacher was sending out--hrrm, I've forgotten the format, but in MS, it opened with MS something viewer. :) I haven't played with Mandriva in awhile, these days, recommending Mepis or Ubuntu. There is also the possibility of Vector Linux, based on Slack, and supposedly better suited to lower end, older hardware. I have played with it and everything seems to work well. I'm wondering if a 350, no doubt without that much RAM, will have trouble with Mandriva? On the other hand, if you're used to Mandriva, then by all means use it, as you'll be better able to help her with the inevitable questions. - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: I can't believe you got into Oxford! Willow: It's pretty exciting. Oz: That's some deep academia there. Buffy: That's where they make Gileses! Willow: I know! I can learn, and have scones! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFDs0LO+lTVdes0Z9YRAg1dAJi2DsSvi5kkbssybxqI5fphDOuxAJ4h7jLY jBrDwFCRMwJ9rMj7lJMMNQ== =NijN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
