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Re: Yet another junior-doc quickguide revision



Matt Kraai wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:12:26PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > http://people.debian.org/~synrg/junior-doc/quickguide/
> >
> > Suggestions welcome.
> 
> In section 5.2, step 4 discusses the Gnome and KDE desktop tasks.
> It states that a `Pentium or better CPU' is required.  Though I'm
> sure this is meant to include non-i386 processors, it sounds
> somewhat chauvinist.  I don't know a better phrasing, though.


How about "60MHz or faster"? As long as you have sufficient RAM most
window managers are bearable on a 486 at 66MHz and should run
reasonably well on an Acorn, Amiga or old Mac of that speed.

- Richard

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