Hi, Jerome! On 5/13/05, Jerome Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's great. This is the first step. The second step (installing and > introducing the new system) if done well makes the difference. > Yup! True true! > > Hardware: > > Pentium II 233 MHz > > 2 GB > > RAM 64 Mb > > on board sound and video > > external modem softk > > You can always use old, deprecated distros if you want to. If I will do that, which distros would be good? > If we're going to base this on current existing desktop environments and > default installs, you're going to have a problem. I have an old P166 > with 128MB RAM at home running barbones ubuntu with XFCE and so far > everything is ok, a bit slow but usable and I only use this box to surf > the net and do some very minor editing in svn trunk. > Hmmm. I see... Have you extra RAM to spare?
> > What they want to do: > > to record tapes to mp3 > Never tried this I don't know anyone who has, actually. Be it on Windows or GNU/Linux. > > games > Hmmm....emacs tetris perhaps? =) > > office suite > Not OOo please...AbiWord and Gnumeric perhaps... Have you tried them? > > video and music playing capabilities > Decoding music files ain't really an issue with such machines...video > however is a different story. > I see. Thanks for the input, Jerome. ^_^ -- 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
