On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I could not get the fellow to the "look, this doesn't work, you need > more RAM or a leaner distro" realization. > > If someone comes to the clinic with their heart/mind set on running the latest & greatest distro this will always be a difficult conversation. Even If if you could get a lightweight distro installed chances are it's not going to be all that useful to the person. It will be less user-friendly and they won't be able to install very many apps. One of the harder tasks at the clinic is convincing people that > their older hardware won't run newer distros. Yes, there is > ten tons of free candy in that big pile, but you are not going > to carry it all home in your little red wagon. > Don't confuse "newer" distros w. lightweight vs. fully loaded distros. Puppy, DSL vs. Fedora, Ubuntu. There are plenty of good lightweight distros under current development. http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/43541.aspx > It would be good to have a discussion of the latest supported > distros and applications for older and smaller machines. As > M$ turns a cold shoulder to folks with older hardware, we > have an opportunity to gather lots of refugees. Conversely, > for many devices (pocket computers) the emphasis is moderate > capability consuming miniscule power. Those can also benefit > from the leaner distros. > > Keith Might I also suggest live cds of some lightweight distros and/or running some of these lightweight distros in virtual box so people can give them a test run. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
