[Wolves] Thanx and Question

[Dave Morley]

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 18:54 -0500, Octavio Augusto Sánchez Velázquez
wrote:
> Thanx everybody for the welcome, now, I have a question.
> My mom has this laptop which she only uses for presentations and it is
> dam slow. Of course it has windows XP I want to kill this OS of her
> laptop and get a useful one. it is a Compaq presario 700 with a mobile
> AMD Duron Processor at 493 MHz (I know, it is an old one) 112 MB ram.
> So my question is What distro should it fits best for my mom. It must be
> possible to install a desktop manager, as long as my mom would not
> understand the CLI. and She requires some presentations maker, something
> compatible with ppt. and a word processor compatible with .doc Thank you
> very much...
> 
> 
Xubuntu would run quite adequately on that machine.  It would still be a
little slow.  Failing that things like slax, dsl, are possibles.

Personally if you know Ubuntu well enough then Xubuntu may be your best
bet as control wise they have tried to make it feel as much like Ubuntu
as possible.

P.S. Welcome to the list.  Boy your in for a shock in September :D
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