[ale] Basic/playing-around distro

[Boris Borisov]

Any heavy lifting modern browser would kill that computer. You 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.

Back in the days when I wasn't that lazy I'll do Debian base install add X
server IceWM window manager and mozilla. And keep building it from there if
I needed more.

Nowadays I got spoiled with my kids leftovers from gaming computers and
install directly big distro. What a shame ...

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
>
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