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Re: Debian on an old PC



On Wednesday 05 January 2005 06:36 am, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:

> With this box I am trying to convince my father that linux is an 
> excellent replacement for windows98se for writing textdocuments and 
> maybe some scientific documents. 

Just not going to happen with that machine.  Spending a couple dozen 
dollars on a newer old machine will go a *long* way for usability and 
performance, however.

> He needs a machine with a simple gui, openoffice.org 
> and some other simple programs.

OpenOffice.org raises the bar to a recent (5 years) machine.

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.dyndns.org
http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/

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