On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 14:40 +0530, Rony wrote: > Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > > > My neighbour is sick of his Windows 98 and now wants Linux on his > > desktop machine too, after using Kubuntu on his laptop. His is an old > > P3 566MHz computer with 96MB RAM. > > > Since your neighbour is an old P3 566MHz. computer with only 96 MB RAM, > he will not be in a position to run latest distros unless you are a > wizard in keeping things trim. Distros with kernels above 2.4 use more > resources. For XP to Linux migrators, Mandrake/Mandriva distros work > best as they are multimedia ready. For MP3 and DVD, you simply download > some extra stuff. I have used Mandrake 10.1 earlier and now I use > Mandriva 2006 and it is simply too good. Your neighbour should use > Mandrake 10.1.
Why does not he try, Mepis or elive ? Both are good, I have installed them on P I m/c and the are just good. Sandy -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
