[HLUG] HLUG Meeting - 16th April 2008

[paul.maddox.mail-list at synth.net]

Hi,

my tuppence worth ;-

> It's mainly for her son, who wants to do school work (OOo; KOffice),
> internet (FF) and MSN (not sure about this - Jabber, Kopete, etc).

use pidgeon for MSN.

> Btw,
> it's a 1G Mhz processor (P3?) with 512Mb of RAM.

more than enough to start, at least until he wants to play games.

> Your thoughts please:
> - should I tell her to splash out on a legal copy of Windows off eBay?
> - should I proceed to install Linux, and show the lad Ubuntuforums and
> Linux questions?

Assuming he *just* wants to do school work and browse the net, ubuntu
would seem a good choice. if he wants to play games, then maybe windows.

> Bearing in mind, as a truck driver, I won't be around that regularly to
> help if he gets stuck.

he could join this group.

Paul