[PLUG] Distro selection

[( अमेय पाळंदे ) Ameya Palande]

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> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:00:57 +0530
> From: "Aditya Godbole" <aag.lists at gmail.com>
> Subject: [PLUG] Distro selection
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> Hi all,
> I'm a bit out of touch with the latest and greatest distributions out
> there. I would like suggestions for a distribution that meets the
> following criteria -
> 1. For desktop use, for folks who cant use the CLI.
> 2. Machine - Intel hyperthreading, 512 MB RAM, about 10G of disk space
> available for the system, no other fancy hardware. Net access via
> PPPoE.
> 3. GUI based tools for system configuration.
> 4. Importing existing users during installation would be a great.
> 5. Option to skip bootloader installation.
> 6. No broadband access, so all software thats required should be there on discs.
>
> I hope I'm not expecting too much :)
>
> Thanks.
> --
> aditya

Hi Aditya,

I will recommend OpenSUSE 10.1
I think no tool can beat YaST !!!

Regards,
Ameya.