>From Alex Malinovich on Tuesday, 2003-11-25 at 05:58:25 -0600: > I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very > little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the > moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest. > > My friend's mother is fed up with Windows 98 and wants something better. > Every time before I've had to go with a newbie-friendly GUI for people > who don't know computers and more importantly DON'T WANT TO LEARN about > them, I've gone with either a Gnome or KDE setup. > > In this particular case, however, I'm dealing with a Pentium 233 MHz > with 32 MB of RAM. While I'd love to put Gnome and Nautilus on there and > call it a day, waiting 10 minutes for the desktop to load and another 2 > minutes for the file-manager just won't cut it I'm afraid.
Same specs as my old laptop. I would recommend icewm or xfce. icewm has a smaller footprint, plus in appearance it is more like windows, so maybe it is the best pick. Make sure she has some low-memory desktop applications like abiword and gnumeric. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
