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@xxxxxxxxx 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... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, Md, USA
