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[Daniel Pittman]

Steve Macdonald <dakmani1 at yahoo.co.nz> writes:

> I am having to sort out an old computer for my brother which is only a
> celeron 450mhz with 150mb ram 8gb drive. What would be best to install
> on it that will also be the easiest. It has a sis530 graphics chip and
> I can choose between a ambient modem or a motorola modem. It will also
> need to allow digital camera support.

I set up a machine for my mother on relatively similar hardware, with a
little more memory, and found it acceptable.

I used KUbuntu Dapper, together with digikam from Universe, and that
provided a reasonable basis for running the system.  She was happy with
this; she is a competent user of computers but by no stretch of the
imagination any sort of systems administrator.


Anyhow, you might also want to try XUbuntu, as that is supposed to be a
lower resource use option than either of KDE or GNOME[1], or increasing
the memory the system has.

Oh, and you will not find any of the LiveCD options friendly to
something that low on RAM.  Use the traditional (alternate) install CD
to get the Ubuntu software on there.

Regards,
        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  I don't give this much credit, as real memory use is close to
     identical across all the platforms, but others do.
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