Re: [Ayuda] Linux pequeno para laptop

[H Ordonez en hw ac uk]

Here's what I would do :

The easiest thing would be to update mozilla on your existing setup, but i
don't know if your laptop has a modem and/if that modem needs to be
configured as well.

It would also help us if you give us the specs of your laptop, specially
memory and disk size (I gather from the web that the graphic chipset is well
supported)

If you really want to start from scratch, there are options for small
linuxes available take a look at

www.vectorlinux.com
http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/download.htm

Most linuxes have support for a variety of languages, although mozilla is
still one of the applications that's a bit behind (it takes a while for the
localization team to catch-up with releases) look here:

http://mozillaes.mozdev.org/descargas/mozilla.org/index.php


My advice is to get the laptop configure before you go down south, as there
would be problems to get linux cd's or assistance, perhaps you could contact
someone in your LUG (Linux Users group)

http://www.tux.org/luglist.html

Or the the Guerrero LUG (if you need assistance once you're there, I'm sure
these chaps would gladly help you)

http://guerrero.linux.org.mx/


I think what you're doing is very generous but it has to be said: it's
really the government and our society who should do more and shame on us who
spent countless hours debating about stupidities when we could do things to
improve the lives of our fellow mexicans...;(


Kind regards

Hugo Ordonez
Dept. of Computing and Electrical Engineering
Heriot-Watt University
EH144AS U.K.
mailto:H Ordonez en hw ac uk


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ting "Susan R. Cragin" <susancragin en earthlink net>:

> Hi. Sorry about that. I did get a couple of good answers despite my
> bad 
> Spanish, but here is the translation.
> I'm a US resident with a young Mexican friend who lives in the
> countryside about 4 hours from Acapulco.
> My friend knows Linux pretty well, and wants a laptop installed with
> 
> Linux, to receive e-mail for his entire village. (It would be for 
> everyone. Eduardo reads Spanish and English (and Mayan) but the rest
> of 
> the town is illiterate.)
> I have an old Dell Inspiron 3000 with Red Hat 6.0, in English,
> installed 
> on it. But I was wondering if there was a small Linux, in Spanish,
> with 
> only the essentials, that still ran Mozilla, but had all the drivers
> I 
> would need.
> (The reason I was thinking of this is because people will want to
> send 
> photos, and there will be nowhere for the photos to go but the hard
> drive.)
> The village's telephone numbers are 011-52-95455-342-48 and 49. Is
> there 
> internet access in that area? Does anyone know?
> I hope to fly down in September.
> THank you for any information.
> Susan
> 
> Alejandro Martinez wrote:
> Hi:
> 
>   Sorry, but I (maybe another member in the list get it, but I not)
> can?t
>   understand clearly what you pretend, the spanish in this email is
> very
>   confusing. Maybe if you try to re-send this email in english it
> will 
> be more
>   easy to understand for some of us.
> 
>   Thank you.
> 
>   -----Mensaje original-----
>   Yo soy un american con un amigo joven mexican qui viva cerca de
>   Acapulco. (4 horas del sud-est en autobus.)
>   Il connoce Linux tambien et quiero un computer mobile con un Linux
> muy
>   simple con Mozilla, por recebir e-mail en su pueblo. (Es por todo
> el
>   pueblo. Il lir espanol et ingles, pero la poblacion es
> analphabet.)
>   Yo hay un ancien Dell laptop del series Inspiron 3000 con Red Hat
> 6.0 en
>   ingles.
>   Es un Linux pequeno en espanol? mas nuevo?
>   El numero de telephone por la pueblo es 011-52-95455-342-48 y
> 49.
>   Es possible y recebir internet?
>   Yo volar a Acapulco en Septiembre.
>   Gracias por todo informacion.
> 
> 
>  
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