[vox] Can anyone help?

[Scot A]

Bill,
I am thinking I should bring several DVDs and CDs to the next meeting.
While I am not a fan of undue waste, given the age of my system, it
might be in my best interest to get the items burned at the meeting.
BTW, Pentium 4 CPU 1.70 GHz
1.69 GHz 1 B RAM
Namaste'
Scot


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Bill Broadley <bill at broadley.org> wrote:

> On 02/14/2013 02:49 PM, Vincenzo Ampolo wrote:
> > On 02/14/2013 02:47 PM, Scot A wrote:
> >> Bill,
> >> How much room would I need on said thumb drive?
> >> (And yes my computer is about 10 years old.)
> >> Namaste'
> >> Scot
> >
> > 2Gb should be enough.
>
> 2GB should be plenty, but 10 years old might need a CD/DVD, I'd google
> for your motherboard or look in BIOS for boot options to see if USB is
> possible.  I believe USB booting was pretty rare in 2003, maybe only on
> laptops.
>
> > 4Gb would be great.
> >
> > And if it's 10 years old you can start discarding Ubuntu (latest) from
> > your list of choices.
>
> Yeah, that's old enough I'm not sure I'd recommend any of the mainstream
> choices.  How much ram do you have?  CPU?  Disk?
>
> That's likely constrained enough that you should look at the lighter
> weight distributions, unfortunately I'm not particularly familiar with
> them.
>
> Something that fully supports XFCE should work, there are many others,
> but that's one of the more popular light weight desktop environments.
>
> Definitely avoid Ubuntu or any distribution that forces a 3D desktop.
>
> Hmm, ubuntu-server might work, then build from there carefully with
> xfce4.  Not something I'd recommend for a beginner, but might be
> feasible for an install fest.
>
>
>
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