20 Jun
2007
20 Jun
'07
6:30 p.m.
Daniel de Kok wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 03:17 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Her hardware is not bleeding edge, it's four years old. But, when we plugged a USB mouse into her machine, it lost the keyboard. Windows recognizes both on that machine.
CentOS 4 works great with older hardware, and is supported with security updates until 2012. There's a CentOS 4.4 live CD available through:
Thanks, I pulled that and checked the checksums. I'll be seeing her tonight, and give it a try.
I've heard that CentOS is not the greatest for desktop, but very nice for servers. Would another distro be more suitable for a desktop for a woman who is technically capable, but doesn't want to dive under the hood often, and likes for her new printer "to just work"?
Mike
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