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Refalm:

quote:Devillion: Cool, thanks guys. So look at fedora, mandrake, and suse.

Do they all use the KDE desktop enviorment? That is what i use on my distro, and is what i would most easily be able to teach the user.

And i heard someone say the fedora cannot play mp3's or read FAT and NTFS disks? Is this true?
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I never tried Fedora, but I know it needs a mp3 plugin from XMMS.org.

Mandrake is probably the best for your friend. It's easy, it reads FAT32 partitions, plays mp3's, have many drivers and comes standard with OpenOffice.org, which can read, write and save Word, Excel and Powerpoint files (highly compatible with Office XP).

Commander:
tried RedHat and SuSE.. but i must say, imo suse is the better one.  it's fast and reads ntfs and fat32 partitions without having to do anything.  yast(SuSE control panel) is the coolest thing, redhat didnt have something anywhere close to that (not sure if Fedora does).

didnt try Mandrake yet.  but with suse installed, nothing is pushing to try any other distro... not yet

hm_murdock:

quote:and cannot run windows
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yes, it can. I ran XP Pro on a 300 with 512MB and it was gravy.

the trick is having a good vid card. if you've got that, then you're good to go.

restin256:

quote:Originally posted by worker201:
that's restin256 - he is obviously smoking a whole bunch of crack.  I have not had any trouble with mounting win drives, or viewing/hearing any media.  I guess he is rebuilding his kernel to 2.6 or something, and isn't doing so well.  Trust me, Fedora is cool.
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Not in my opinion. Sound still wouldn't work after I recompiled the kernel, the gay drivers. I would try new methoods of mounting the drives, but I already uninstalled Fedora for SuSE 9 Pro. That's a good OS for starters.

And if you're not completely illiterate, and want to learn a lot about Linux, try Gentoo.

And Commander, RedHat sucks. Fedora is just another excuse of it, I see/saw absolutely nothing different, other than it installed - and uninstalled - faster than RH9.

I tried MDK 8 on a P2 with 160MB of RAM, and it ran pretty well.

preacher:
If you want the fastest speed in your older(though not old by linux standards) equipment, try using Slackware. Slack has always been the fastest performer for me on my slow ass 200mhz/64mb RAM pc.

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