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

[Ah Pook]

On Monday 16 October 2006 11:16 am, Allen Shaw wrote:
>     - Processor: AMD K6-2 / 500Mhz
>     - RAM: 312 MB
>     - HDD: 8 GB

I have a Gentoo box running KDE on that.  It's not killer fast, but it 
doesn't drive the owner nuts (that I've heard).  [Anecdote: I had 
FreeBSD KDE on that one for a time, and it was noticeably snappier.  
It's all the same to her, right?  :-)]  A caveat if you're planning a 
source-based distro: compile times on hardware like that will take 
forever.  If you have a network available, you can distribute 
compilation (distcc), but otherwise I'd probably go with something 
else.  I didn't catch why Red Hat wasn't an option.  Go with what you 
know, no?

> 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?

Haven't done input, since I just cut and paste, but font support took 
about 5 minutes.  http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Enabling_Japanese
I imagine it's much the same for any distro - grab some fonts, change 
locale, install the helper programs for input.