On Saturday 10 April 2010 13:49:16 Benjamin Ashton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My wife's laptop, currently running XP, has got a bit silly as of late,
> which has given me the excuse/permission to put Linux on it. It only has
> 512 RAM. Could anyone suggest a distro that doesn't keep using the hard
> disk for swap but would also make an easy transition from XP. Would Gnome
> or Xfce be better? It would also have to have a word-processor that could
> open Word files (so, I presume, must have Open Office - does Xfce allow for
> Open Office?), photos and music.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Ben.
You could try AntiX which is Simply Mepis but with either Icewm or Fluxbox as
opposed to Gnome or KDE. It is designed for lower spec machines. Simply Mepis
(and AntiX) is a debian based distro
http://antix.mepis.org/index.php/Main_Page
Tim
