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New Linux Install

Started by jodyn , Feb 26 2011 06:21 PM

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jodyn

Posted 26 February 2011 - 06:21 PM

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Hello all

Am in the process of setting a new (re-used) machine up for my mother and was playing with the idea of going Linux,

All she really does on it is Facebook / email / surfing, and when my 7 year old stays over with her, he plays web (flash) based games

The machine she has is a bit old now, and I figured I'd get much better performance from a linux install, rather than re-doing a XP / Win 7 install on it

Spec is 2.4 Celeron, 1GB Ram, 256MB graphics card

really just looking for advise on which of the many versions I should go with.

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Posted 26 February 2011 - 07:44 PM

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ill be trying FEDORA in a minute. will use to play with AMAHI... lol

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Posted 26 February 2011 - 07:49 PM

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For just a web browsing machine, ubuntu would probably be a good idea.

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Posted 27 February 2011 - 09:27 AM

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For just a web browsing machine, ubuntu would probably be a good idea.

I can vouch for that. Not used any other flavour of Linux before, but recently installed Ubuntu and it's great as a basic web browsing machine (and there's a free Flash plug-in of course).

Runs just fine on a 6 year old laptop running a 1.4Ghz Celeron with 1Gb RAM...speedier than it ever was under XP, even when it was new...

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jodyn

Posted 27 February 2011 - 09:54 AM

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For just a web browsing machine, ubuntu would probably be a good idea.

thats great, thanks for that.

That was the version that I found in my reading as well

do you know if there is a Skype addin ?

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Posted 27 February 2011 - 01:53 PM

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just answered my own question, i guess i should have looked before asking

http://www.skype.com...computer/linux/

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Posted 27 February 2011 - 02:03 PM

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I have been playing around with Jolicloud on a Dell Netbook and the latest download has increased support for 'old' laptops. Very user friendly for something based on Linux.

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Posted 27 February 2011 - 02:12 PM

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I have been playing around with Jolicloud on a Dell Netbook and the latest download has increased support for 'old' laptops. Very user friendly for something based on Linux.

Do you know if Skype works on it ?