From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ROZXl-0002p7-U7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:40:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16BD021C08E; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:40:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F5521C02E for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:39:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg7 with SMTP id 7so4035827wwg.10 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:39:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=AsY/6FELm1dItGqcjQCk8HiL++BSuLg4jQ+HMJoQqhk=; b=ec/lcWX4qKjNLu7Hy9lPEtedTlHMQMh6etlPqmyvTypDAhu6WGhpdgzkvS+ZHdHs3u SSjR3w6ASTifJ8msicdlVhw8FwzLi9H8YrDUXKRalR66gGGrTja1nfyX73x2ADjP0Hda Qkidw/U9/wWwleZLx+XN7qBd6oLhXQHcTF9c0= Received: by 10.180.80.98 with SMTP id q2mr10161503wix.53.1320950341311; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:39:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com ([196.215.144.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hn15sm5413026wib.22.2011.11.10.10.38.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:38:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:38:54 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro Message-ID: <20111110203854.206054a2@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <4EBC1707.5030103@gmail.com> References: <4EBC1707.5030103@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 81faddd5-60d8-4f6c-a75b-36b1c8afe0c4 X-Archives-Hash: 57c900fa974087ff6765551a652c318d On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:25:11 -0600 Dale wrote: > Hi, > > This is maybe a bit off topic but here goes. I want to install Linux > on my brothers rig. The heat sink on the CPU is not much, OEM type. > I don't want to install Gentoo because of that and it is a older rig > with a slow CPU and not a lot of ram either. So, what is a easy to > install distro that has KDE4, Seamonkey, gtkam, GIMP and such? Almost any general-purpose distro out there will have those. It really doesn't matter which one you pick so go with the one that has wallpapers your brother likes. Hey, seeing as the distro itself is not so relevant actually, you might as well pick any old arbitrary differentiator. Wallpapers are as good as any. > I > want something easy because I want to install and leave it be until > he can get a new rig built. Then I'll be installing Gentoo for a > more permanent install. > > I looked at Kubuntu, Ubuntu and tried to install Mandriva. Mandriva > got to a point and just froze up on me. I tried three times and it > did the same thing each time so no clue what is going on there. > > Ideas? > > Dale > > :-) :-) > -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com