On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Sunny <sloncho at gmail.com> wrote: > > I would recommend LXDE Linux mint - very lightweight, and from my > experience does everything a "heavier" variant would do. I'd suggest > dual-boot for that kind of machine - virtual XP under mint will be too > slow. Also - form a "converting" stand point - I found out that my > friends, which I set to dual-boot usually adopt linux much faster, as > it's much of a hassle to reboot each time. On the other hend, VM > solution makes people more confident that they don't loose anything > ... still, while the VM users feel safer and happier, the dual-booters > advance faster in the linux world :) > Here's the LXDE mint link: http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=60 -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.