On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:31:47AM -0500, Chu Jeang Tan wrote:
My friend has the following laptop: CPU: Pentium 2 266MHz Memory: 256MB Hard drive: 4gb
How would you setup a usable Linux system on this? It should be able to run web browser, open office suite, IM, play MP3, various video formats.
Is Fedora a good choice for low powered system?
I'd think gnome may be too heavyweight WM and KDE might be a better option.
Note that this is for a novice and probably would prefer to configure stuffs through UI rather than text editors.
While it may be possib le toi nstall FC6 or 7 on such a machine, it would be very tight for disk space, very SLOOOOOOWWWWW, and overall painful to use.
You may want to look at small distributions like Puppy Linux or DSL (Damn Small Linux).