Re: [Nolug] Starting a new distro war

From: John D. Tiedeman <jdtiede_at_sstar.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:59:29 -0600
Message-ID: <4058D851.2060900@sstar.com>

Dave Prentice wrote:

>Hi y'all,
> I just got a laptop (thanks Paul!) and want to have an xwindows
>gui (I'm used to kde) with web browser, Open Office, powerpoint
>viewer, and pdf viewer. Anything else is gravy. The laptop is a 166mhz
>Pentium I and will have 96 meg RAM and 2 gig hard drive space. I'm
>very used to Redhate, but willing to go with anything that will have
>the above features. Considering the resource limitations, any
>suggestions on which distro to install?
>Thanks,
>Dave Prentice
>prentice@instruction.com
>
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Since you're already used to RedHat, why not try Fedora? I've had very
little trouble with it so far, and most of the differences are cosmetic
only (splash screen colors, etc.).

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