On 5/13/05, Dean Michael C. Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hardware: > > Pentium II 233 MHz > > 2 GB > > RAM 64 Mb > > on board sound and video > > external modem softk > > > > Pretty old hardware they have there... > Yup. Ye olde hardware... I don't think they have some cash to spare for a new box. Not just yet.
> > 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. Games - there's always games on Emacs so I will definitely make sure they have Emacs! <laughs> And there's a chat client there too. And a web browser... But of course, Emacs is not for everyone. I remember playing ZSNES ROMs on our old computer... That was sometime in my early college days so my computer was similar to theirs. I was using Windows 98 as my OS back then. I guess I pushed it... I watched anime there and played mp3s. > 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. > Hmmmm. Any other suggestions? -- Clair Ching librarian, bookworm, information gatherer, anime fan, linux newbie http://clair.free.net.ph - blog about linux, emacs planner, tech and culture http://clair.pinoyweb.net - daily journal, stories, miscellany _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
