<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi Angie,<br> You might want to look at <span style="font-weight: bold;">X</span>ubuntu for sheer ease of use. You can run it from a CD to try it out. The Ubuntu community is big and very supportive of newbies (like me). It just works and it looks like it's here to stay and stay free.<br><br>Good luck with your project!<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Stewart<br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: "angie@nirvana.me.uk" <angie@nirvana.me.uk><br>To: dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Sent: Tuesday, 31 October, 2006 9:47:03 AM<br>Subject: [dundee] Linux for low spec
PCs<br><br><div>Hi,<br> Just wondering if anyone could recommend a Linux distro. for low <br>spec refurbished laptops - a sample spec would be:<br><br>IBM Thinkpad - Intel P2 300 128MB 3GB.<br><br>The background is we're looking to get refurbished laptops for £100ish <br>and set them up for low income families who are doing their ECDL to <br>borrow - other than Internet access all we need to run on them is <br>OpenOffice.org.<br>Ideally we'd like to be able to create accounts so they can't delete <br>things they shouldn't.<br><br>Any suggestions would be much appreciated.<br><br>Regards<br><br> - Angie<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk <a target="_blank" href="http://dundee.lug.org.uk">http://dundee.lug.org.uk</a><br><a target="_blank"
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