<div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/27 <a href="mailto:llug@lodestar.icom43.net">llug@lodestar.icom43.net</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llug@lodestar.icom43.net">llug@lodestar.icom43.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I would suggest Damn Small Linux, but I couldn't swear as to the modem<br>
support - I'll try and check that. DSL is usually thought of as a<br>
lightweight distro like Puppy, but when it's installed to disk it's Debian<br>
- and it uses Knoppix hardware detection :-)<br>
</blockquote></div><br>It's an idea, but the trouble with it is that it's Damn Small. Which means that most of the packages he's likely to want for a decent modern desktop aren't included. Installing OpenOffice.org, for instance, over a dial-up connection, would take hours. <br>
<br>What he really wants is something that has everything he needs on the disk, so that the less installing of stuff via the internet he has to do, the better. <br><br>-- <br>Ken Walton<br>