On Tuesday 20 June 2006 00:34, Kyle Oliveira wrote: > I'm helping a friend upgrade an old Inspiron 3000 so she can check > email and do Word documents while she's in France. I decided to run > linux as the OS since I've heard it's more efficient that windows in > that sort of situation and I've kinda narrowed it down to three > options: cAos (because it's supposedly good with older hardware), > MEPIS (same reason, plus I heard it does networking stuff well), and > Mandriva (simply because Matloff's walkthrough is easily available). > I was wondering which one would be the best to install considering: > *The laptop is running on a Pentium I with 128 MB of RAM. It also has > a *blank* 30 GB hard drive
Any distribution should support this about equally well -- you may want a somewhat stripped down desktop environment for speed. > *There is no RJ-45 port, per se - we have a USB to RJ 45 adaptor and > a PCMCIA 56k modem Any distribution should have the same support for these. > *The installation needs to be fairly easy, she's already in France > with all the equipment. I'll probably be leading her through the > installation through some sort of written walkthrough (if you know > where to get one, that'd be nice too) and talking on the phone. You might consider Ubuntu. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
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