[nylug-talk] distro recommendations (cjk input and other concerns)

[Paul Robbins]

Allen, I am not sure about the CJK configuration, but I recently did the
same thing for my wife.  When I got married, I inherited my wife's Windows
ME machine.  I had my linux laptop, so I didn't worry with it too much. But
when Microsoft stopped their support of ME, she came to me and said she
wanted me to put Linux on there. I was more than happy to comply.  I put
Fedora Core 5 to allow for simplicity, large support base, and easy
configuration.  I know that I will probably get shunned from this LUG for
being so mainstream, but that is what she needs. She is a mainstream user
and I am trying to make a system available for her needs.  The only real
configuration I had to make was adding Java and Flash support to Firefox.
Her digital camera loaded immediately, the printer/scanner works with no
extra configuration.  I still haven't been able to get her Palm Zire 31 to
sync, but i am also not very familiar with gpilot.  So for a sum up, FC5 has
been wonderfully easy for me to have to maintain and for my wife to use.
Plus, this site has made life much easier.

http://www.fedorafaq.org/

Good Luck.

On 10/16/06, Allen Shaw <ashaw at iifwp.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to move move my wife's computer from Windows to Linux and
> would like your recommendations.  Specifically, I'm concerned about:
>
> 1. CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) input (not just reading): hopefully
> similar to -- and as simple as -- she's using now
> 2. Hardware:
>     - Processor: AMD K6-2 / 500Mhz
>     - RAM: 312 MB
>     - HDD: 8 GB
> 3. Learning curve and maintenance:  My Linux experience is only on
> RedHat and its clones.  My wife will be doing Zero
> configuration/maintenance on this, so it's all on me.  I want to be able
> to set this up for her fairly quickly, and then have it run reliably
> forever after.
>
> This machine will be used almost exclusively for Web surfing, and the
> rare viewing of PDFs and MS-Office documents.  I'm already expecting
> that with the given hardware I'll need a lightweight desktop like IceWM
> (which I use everyday on my RHEL desktop anyway).
>
> I've read the Ubuntu and Gentoo make it fairly easy to setup CJK input.
> Can someone with more experience recommend either one of them -- or
> another distro -- for this particular situation?
>
> Thanks,
> Allen
>
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