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 1ROZvb-0006bB-LU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:04:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CEE921C0A7; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:04:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6840021C02E for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:03:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenm12 with SMTP id m12so2850847yen.40 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:03:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=yVpUj2JVSrcj/FKF6Tk7kHxrwPuAzfTmGV5HQwGeldE=; b=WUy4v+3cULu7P15HS/fp0/lELxbUPJo2cZpszf2T1h73uYipASq3HiHMz5ZqeczwFN ILlqJskAmZbNYwL75ls5pCviKgqi+i6UWdgjjqxJKyqmK+dDrlEUmErX6VPJPXUVCBHi uDOffOSCfxqbLu8oSLyhThlETDgf+5pM6CcXU= Received: by 10.101.152.12 with SMTP id e12mr3881286ano.26.1320951811862; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:03:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-124-88.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.124.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y71sm13344529yhh.6.2011.11.10.11.03.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:03:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EBC1FFD.3040403@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:03:25 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro References: <4EBC1707.5030103@gmail.com> <20111110203854.206054a2@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20111110203854.206054a2@rohan.example.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c03f5bee-9ee5-418e-a03f-5259d66ad401 X-Archives-Hash: 84bc2ec617efa282ec0f918261e3d230 Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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. > > > Thanks Alan. I'm downloading Kubuntu. I picked the CD version since I think it will have what I need. I wanted to install Mandriva since I have used it before and sort of know how it works but since it won't complete the install, gotta pick something else. lol The biggest thing is that I didn't want to have to compile a lot of stuff. I just don't like the small heat sink the CPU has. It might be OK for winders but compiling OOo for 12 hours may cause a heat problem. ;-) My brother has to have OOo too. Any tips or tricks on Kubuntu anyone? Sort of a basic 'this is how you update/install something for idiots' type thing. lol Dale :-) :-)