On Wed March 28 2007 11:31:47 am 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.
-- Chu Jeang Tan chujtan@gmail.com
Have done this quite a bit - my choices would be MepisLite, DreamLinux, or dynebolic; I've got MepisLite running on a similar machine right now, Micron P2 266/256MB ram, and it runs just fine, though I don't suggest using OpenOffice. DreamLinux is supposed to run well on older machines, and I've used it on a P3 450MHz w/ 384 MB ram, which ran quite well; dynebolic is supposed to do well on older machines, but I've only run it on more modern platforms - it's a bit more work to get it installed to the hard drive and booting, but, it's a neat distro for media-content creatives...