RE: [Nolug] suggestions for workstation

How old? The reason I ask is that while RH 8 is very nice for new users,
has a trivially easy install, and comes with OpenOffice.org 1.0.1, you need
a fairly nice system to run reasonably. I use it on a PII 350 with 382 megs
of ram, and its good enough for me to use every day. A friend has it
running on a PII 200, with 128 megs of ram, but I don't know how well it
runs. If you have something fairly decent, I'd suggest RedHat 8.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
Behalf Of Edward Melendez
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:09 PM
To: nolug@joeykelly.net
Subject: [Nolug] suggestions for workstation

I received an older model Gateway computer as a donation for my non-profit
and would like to turn it into a workstation for volunteers. It needs to
have the ability to work with MS Office documents and since most of these
folks will be new to Linux, something that resembles a Windows GUI as much
as possible. What distribution is best these days for something like this?
I have installed Debian/FreeBSD and Red Hat in the past, but am curios as to
what has the easiest installs these days.

Thanks

Edward Melendez
http://www.melendez.org

Only those who give up their history are consigned to oblivion.
-Marcos

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