OK, I am going to advocate slackware but I know that it cannot be in this race. So no points for pointing this out. On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:00, Aditya Godbole wrote: > Hi all, > I'm a bit out of touch with the latest and greatest distributions out > there. I would like suggestions for a distribution that meets the > following criteria - > 1. For desktop use, for folks who cant use the CLI.
If you set up for them, yes. > 2. Machine - Intel hyperthreading, 512 MB RAM, about 10G of disk space > available for the system, no other fancy hardware. Net access via > PPPoE. No problem. > 3. GUI based tools for system configuration. N.A. > 4. Importing existing users during installation would be a great. N.A. > 5. Option to skip bootloader installation. Available.. > 6. No broadband access, so all software thats required should be there on > discs. Available. I have set it up for my parents and wife and so far it is working as much it could. Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
