On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 11:35 -0400, fredex wrote: > 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, No. The critical component would be memory (RAM), not diskspace. > very SLOOOOOOWWWWW, and overall painful to use. Open office will always be painful on with such little RAM ;) Ralf
