> > One for Linux newbies > > Most Linux newbies want point-and-click eye-candy that > does everything for them automatically.
If they want that on a single-disc distro, Knoppix is excellent. OK, that's single Compact Disc, not diskette-based, but it's seriously impressive. No idea what sort of power it needs in the machine though; it's very nice on my work machines (dual Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM, and a 1.6GHz Pentium 4 laptop w/256, so certainly nowhere near survivor hardware -- even though the PIII box is the oldest machine in my student digs!). The web site (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html) reckons any i486 or later, with 20MB of RAM for text mode or at least 96 for the KDE graphics mode (128MB recommended for the office products available on the CD). But for someone who wants to play with Linux without messing up their nice fairly-powerful system, it's lovely; choice of graphical environments, supports sound and networking on boot, preinstalled office apps and games, all that sort of stuff. It's been used here as an emergency setup when hard drives have died suddenly and the replacement is being shipped out. Regards, Ben A L Jemmett. (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/) To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
