[wplug] Suggested older notebook distro for noob?

[Scott Bourns]

Thanks.

I thought about that, but he doesn't have a bootable CD drive on the system.
I think he really wants to install a new OS, anyway.

On 2/25/04 11:31 AM, "Ghataora, Hardeep" <hghataora at ccac.edu> wrote:

> Have you looked into Knoppix? Doesn't need to be installed (runs from a
> CD), has openoffice and will give you a good feel of LINUX?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Bourns [mailto:scott at scottbourns.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:28 AM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: [wplug] Suggested older notebook distro for noob?
> 
> 
> I have a friend with an older (233MHz) Compaq notebook running Win95. He
> just purchased a new computer, and he wants to experiment with Linux.
> 
> He's primarily concerned with word processing/office capabilities -
> nothing unusual, so he'd like to run OO.
> 
> He's coming from no Linux experience, and I'm a noob, so with that in
> mind, can you guys suggest a good distro for him?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Scott
> 
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