[GLLUG] Lightweight

[Eduardo Cesconetto]

Thanks Chick! You still seem to be the king of hardware past!

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> On Aug 2, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 08/02/2015 09:36 AM, Eduardo Cesconetto wrote:
>> My 8 year old wants a computer, so I am reactivating an older
>> Dimension 4600, Pentium-D, 2GB RAM, 128GB SSD, PNY Verto GForce 4600
>> (I think)…
>> 
>> I want a machine for her to use youtube, some silly flash based
>> websites and most importantly homework….
>> 
>> So what would you recommend as a media-friendly lightweight distort?
> 
> I think Debian or Arch could do what you want, Eduardo, although I don't know how easy it would be to get Flash and media codecs installed on Debian.  They both have package managers that make it easy to install software.  They both let you start out bare-bones and then add just the software you want, unlike other "big name" distros.
> 
> PCLinuxOS is an RPM-based distro that is relatively lightweight, too, if you want to stick to RPMs.  I think it started out as a fork of Mandrake.  I started out with Mandrake, so I can see the similarities, but I've never used a Red Hat distro so I don't know how well it compares to that.
> 
> If you are concerned about your PC being overtaxed, stay away from any version of Ubuntu.  As far as I know, only Bodhi has managed to strip Ubuntu down into something I enjoy using on ten-year-old laptops.
> 
> If you want a lighter-weight window manager than XFCE, try Openbox or Fluxbox.  They don't usually have a "start button", but you just have to right-click on the desktop to get the menu.
> 
> If you want an easy way to install Arch, check out Manjaro or ArchBang.  You can get Openbox versions of both (in fact, ArchBang is only Openbox), and you can get an XFCE version of Manjaro.  I think ArchBang's default color scheme sucks (lots of gray text on black backgrounds, so it's hard to read), but you don't have to stick with their theme.
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>                               Chick
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