On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 15:55 +0800, Clair Ching wrote: > Hi, everyone! > > I have friends who want to switch to GNU/Linux. They are currently > using a bootleg copy of Windows 98 and other apps but they realize > that they ought to not do that anymore so they talked with me about it > and gave me these details: > > Hardware: > Pentium II 233 MHz > 2 GB > RAM 64 Mb > on board sound and video > external modem softk >
Pretty old hardware they have there... > What they want to do: > to record tapes to mp3 > web browsing > games > office suite > chat client > scribus > video and music playing capabilities > Ok, now that would be pushing it even with a licensed Windows installation. > I am not sure what distro they could install and what apps they could > use with these things in mind. I would appreciate suggestions and > comments. Thanks so much! > I'd suggest the lightest of all the major distros, which would be slackware. However, I don't think the latest distro would be very friendly with their hardware since there are a lot of bells and whistles already with the 10.x Slack. I'd suggest they get a better box so that they can do what they want with the computer. Music isn't really too much a problem with the hardware, but the other specs are quite problematic. HTH -- Dean Michael C. Berris < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG Key: 0x08AE6EAC http://mikhailberis.blogspot.com Mobile: +63 921 7841815
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