Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

[Conrad Newton <conrad.newton@broadpark.no>]

>From Alex Malinovich on Tuesday, 2003-11-25 at 05:58:25 -0600:
> I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very
> little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the
> moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest.
> 
> My friend's mother is fed up with Windows 98 and wants something better.
> Every time before I've had to go with a newbie-friendly GUI for people
> who don't know computers and more importantly DON'T WANT TO LEARN about
> them, I've gone with either a Gnome or KDE setup.
> 
> In this particular case, however, I'm dealing with a Pentium 233 MHz
> with 32 MB of RAM. While I'd love to put Gnome and Nautilus on there and
> call it a day, waiting 10 minutes for the desktop to load and another 2
> minutes for the file-manager just won't cut it I'm afraid.

Same specs as my old laptop.  I would recommend icewm or xfce.
icewm has a smaller footprint, plus in appearance it is more 
like windows, so maybe it is the best pick.

Make sure she has some low-memory desktop applications like abiword 
and gnumeric.

Conrad