[ale] Basic/playing-around distro

[Ken Cochran]

See interspersed, thanks...

> From: Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 18:13:59 -0400
> To: kwc at theworld.com, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Basic/playing-around distro
>
> Any heavy lifting modern browser would kill that computer. You

Ya, was afraid of that, sounds like I need to make me
a lil'trip to the likes of Microcenter & find some kind of
refurb itty-bitty box for this...

> have to restrict yourself to very light window manager. And
> some alternative browsers. There is browsers out there that
> use modern rendering kits but don't have all the capabilities
> of Mozilla Chrome IE or whatever. Midori is good example of
> light but in same time browser with modern rendering engine.

[... Debian base/IceWM/Mozilla ...]
[... gaming leftovers ...]

Ok, I'll be a bit more specific:
I/we need some kinda thing for my parents & their office staff
(only a few people) to access the likes of personal email
completely separately from the internal company/office private
network, which blocks Just About Everything.  (& it's Windows
anyway, ewww...)

Looks like that old XP box might just need to be Put Out Of Its
Misery I guess.  So, I need to find "something."  Thanks, Ken

> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Ken Cochran <kwc at shell.theworld.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi again ALErs, nice thread on NAS recommendations, sounds
> > like it would be an awesome meeting topic too.
> >
> > Another looking-around question/need:
> >
> > Need some kind of distro appropriate for what I'll call a
> > "semi-kiosk" computer; best I can tell, all it needs to run
> > are the following:
> >
> > - Browser (probably Firefox unless someone can recommend
> >   better), especially for web-email a la gmail
> > - shell (duh)
> > - probably camera/photo ingest
> >
> > Current plan is to repurpose an old HP desktop machine that
> > currently runs WinXP.  It is a P4 (32-bit), with 1gb RAM & I'll
> > probably replace its hdd so as to not lose what's on it now.
> > (Right now it's pretty much a dedicated Quickbooks & word
> > processing box & NEVER connects to ANY network.)
> >
> > Looking for a distro that I don't have to mess-around with
> > much, e.g. some kind of analogue to Software Update on M$
> > & Apple products.  Ideas?  Naturally, FAQ/doc pointers are
> > welcome, as well as FMs to RT :)
> >
> > Thanks, Ken
> >
> > Kenneth Cochran         | () ASCII Ribbon Campaign
> > Alexander City, Alabama | /\ Support plain text e-mail