Hello Ben,
On Sat, April 10, 2010 13:49, 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.
Here is an interesting article on Tuxradar regarding lightweight distros:
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/whats-best-lightweight-linux-distro
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Regards,
Jan Henkins
