Re: Getting a Kubuntu CD

Dear Kaushik,

It seems difficult to run new versions of Linux in 128 MB RAM. Anyway, I 
was just looking at puppylinux site. Here is what the someone posted on 
site:

http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads/puplets/flexxxpup-v15-dice?cmt=true#comment-679

If you need old firefox, I have statically compiled working 2.0.0.5 
version with Pango support  which I compiled for Indian languages when 
it was not a default feature. Tarball is about 40 MB. You will get 
required Flash from Adobe. If not, I may have it somewhere. See if it 
works.

Regards,

Sameer Ingole.
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Kaushik Ghose wrote:
> Dear Sameer,
>
> Thanks so much for your reply! I ended up downloading kubuntu (I 
> thought it would take for ever, but it wasn't that bad) and DSL (Damn 
> Small Linux) and Puppy Linux. My parents' machine is a Celeron 1GHz 
> with 128 MB RAM. I couldn't get Kubuntu to be functional (the liveCD 
> mode booted up but it took so long to do anything, I stopped it) I got 
> DSL to work but couldn't configure PPPoE. Puppy Linux turned out to be 
> the one that worked out. The only problem with Puppy Linux seems to be 
> stability - the browser (both seamonkey and firefox 3) sometimes quits 
> all of a sudden. It might be a RAM issue.
>
> If you have any suggestions for a distro that will run on their 
> hardware and where it is easy to set up the following, I would be most 
> interested:
>
> 1. Internet browsing
> 2. Import photos from a digital camera
> 3. video conferencing
> 4. organize photos
> 5. burn stuff to DVD
>
> Thanks much
> -Kaushik
>
>
>
> Sameer N Ingole wrote:
>> Kaushik Ghose wrote:
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm in South Kolkata close to JU and I was wondering if any one had 
>>> a Kubuntu CD
>>> they could lend me? I'm in Kol for a few days and I want to install 
>>> a linux
>>> distribution for my parents (they have been using windows 98 so 
>>> far). Win 98 is
>>> getting too far out of synch (e.g. they can't install Firefox 3) and 
>>> I want them
>>> to use linux, but I need a UI that is close enough to windows so 
>>> that they can
>>> pick it up without trouble.
>>>
>>> Also, if I would welcome suggestions for alternative distros that 
>>> are close
>>> enough to Win that my parents could use.
>>>
>> If its not too late, I have LFY giveaway DVD with *buntu (not CD) that
>> you can borrow on Sunday 11th Jan 09. It has everything. If you can wait
>> till Monday late evening (12th Jan 2009), I can give you Ubuntu 8.10 CD.
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