FC 3 for a Kid on a Gateway Profile 3

[J. Matthew Price]

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like Hotmail.

Thanks,

J. Matthew Price
pricejm at musc.edu


Deep Thinker wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
>  I have just downloaded the first disk to Fedora Core 3. My boss has
> an old Gateway Profile 3 (Pentium III, 1GHz, 256 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard
> Drive, CDBurner/DVD ROM) and he wants me to install Linux on it for
> him to play with and for his kids to play games on.
> 
>  I chose Fedora because of the reviews I have read concerning ease of
> use and community support.
> These folks aren't going to want to do any elaborate system maintenace
> or updating. The parents will want to use the machine for browsing the
> Internet, possibly to check mail, and my boss to get a little peak at
> "what all the Linux fuss is about."
> 
>  This set up could possibly be a stepping stone for allowing me to
> replace some of the older workstation operating systems at work with
> Linux, so I need to get this as clean and dependable as possible.
> 
>  Does anyone have any suggestions as far as childrens educations games
> that will work well with FC 3? I imagine Open Office and Firefox will
> be enough for the parents to get started with.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance, 
> 
>