[ale] Basic/playing-around distro

[DJ-Pfulio]

$150 will get a C2D with 4G RAM off-lease from microcenter. That would blow away
any P4.  I've seen some for under $100 from time to time too.

If you want a browser-centric experience, look towards Chromium-OS.  It didn't
have "updates" the last time I looked at it, but that was a project goal.

And there's always tinycore.

On 06/17/2017 06:39 PM, Ken Cochran wrote:
> 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
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