On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 03:08, Don & Brenda Arnold wrote: > I am seriously considering purchasing Debian (Woody). I have an old Gateway > 486 P4D system with 540mb HD, 128mb ram. I want to be able to email, surf > the web and do word processing among other things. > > Two questions: > > Will it run fine on this machine? Hi! It will run. But you'll just have to be aware that a 486 is not really a fast machine... When configuring the graphical desktop (X Window System - not sure how much you already know about Linux/Unix systems), you should use some light window manager such as twm or fvwm (not sure: is windowmaker fast enough?), in any case don't try to use gnome or kde - you'll have a really long coffee break after you log in... > What can I use for word processing if I install Woody? Usually I recommend abiword, koffice or openoffice on Linux - however, probably all three are really slow (Especially: don't try to use openoffice on this machine!). You can always use one of the many texteditors, like nedit, they don't use that many resources. lyx should be quite usable, too. Harddisk space: I guess you'll have to do some careful thinking which packages to install, but with not installing gnome, kde, and all the development stuff you should be able to do fine. cheers -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg NOTE: keyserver bugs! get my key here: https://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481
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