Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

[peter colton <dotdebsarge@yahoo.co.uk>]

hello Mitch,

       have a look at the link below it should give your some good pointers to 
get the boxs up and running.


http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9973

		all the best from

                      peter colton

On Wednesday 02 November 2005 15:56, Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Our local Free Software User Group has a large number of donated
> computers, each having 64MB of RAM and a PII or PIII processor.  We are
> intending to configure these computers with a useful set of software and
> make them available for use by low-income people in our community.  We
> have no budget for buying more memory.
>
> My question is, if you had a computer with 64 MB of RAM, and you wanted
> to give the novice user the ability to browse the web, use e-mail,
> instant messaging, create documents and spreadsheets, etc.   What window
> manager and GUI applications would you choose?
>
> --
>
> Mitch Wiedemann
> Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association
> http://ithacafreesoftware.org