Guys,
Im after a little advice. Im putting together a couple of desktop machines for a youth organisation, from stuff we have lying about. We have a couple of Compaq desktops with Celeron 333Mhz CPU's, between 96 and 128Mb RAM, and HDD's of a between 5 and 8 Gb.
Im trying to squeeze the best possible performance from these machines from a Linux distro, but it still needs to look pretty, and be intuitive enough for technophobes to use. Saying that, they'll only be using OpenOffice, Firefox etc, nothing to multimedia heavy (we have a number of pretty well specc'd laptops that they'll use mostly).
Ive been trying distro's left right and centre. I started with a baseline of the current Ubuntu, both from Live and installed, and the machines cant cope with the sexyness of the GUI. So i went to the other end of the spectrum and tried DSL. Now it runs like hot poo off a shovel, and I love FluxBox, but its too 'geek' for the target users. So Ive tried a few distro's in between:
- Ubuntu
- DSL
- DSL-N
- PCLinuxOS
- LinuxMint
...and then thought hey - what about Knoppix. Well I was sceptical that it'd run ok with KDE as the GUI, but hey presto it does. Admittedly from live its a bit sluggish, but when its installed it works whizzy quick! The thing is, its designed to run from a LiveCD, few resources, and you can tell this when its installed to HDD, because as they say, not everything works.
I know I could hack and compile a distro from something already out there, but I'm still a bit of a Linux n00b truth be told, spoilt by pretty Ubuntu.
So - I need some advice. I need something that makes use of few resources like Knoppix, uses KDE, but is designed to run installed on a HDD. Im sure there must be a (popular - I hope!) branch somewhere Ive overlooked?
Thanks in advance!
Im after a little advice. Im putting together a couple of desktop machines for a youth organisation, from stuff we have lying about. We have a couple of Compaq desktops with Celeron 333Mhz CPU's, between 96 and 128Mb RAM, and HDD's of a between 5 and 8 Gb.
Im trying to squeeze the best possible performance from these machines from a Linux distro, but it still needs to look pretty, and be intuitive enough for technophobes to use. Saying that, they'll only be using OpenOffice, Firefox etc, nothing to multimedia heavy (we have a number of pretty well specc'd laptops that they'll use mostly).
Ive been trying distro's left right and centre. I started with a baseline of the current Ubuntu, both from Live and installed, and the machines cant cope with the sexyness of the GUI. So i went to the other end of the spectrum and tried DSL. Now it runs like hot poo off a shovel, and I love FluxBox, but its too 'geek' for the target users. So Ive tried a few distro's in between:
- Ubuntu
- DSL
- DSL-N
- PCLinuxOS
- LinuxMint
...and then thought hey - what about Knoppix. Well I was sceptical that it'd run ok with KDE as the GUI, but hey presto it does. Admittedly from live its a bit sluggish, but when its installed it works whizzy quick! The thing is, its designed to run from a LiveCD, few resources, and you can tell this when its installed to HDD, because as they say, not everything works.
I know I could hack and compile a distro from something already out there, but I'm still a bit of a Linux n00b truth be told, spoilt by pretty Ubuntu.
So - I need some advice. I need something that makes use of few resources like Knoppix, uses KDE, but is designed to run installed on a HDD. Im sure there must be a (popular - I hope!) branch somewhere Ive overlooked?
Thanks in advance!
