Re: 233 MHz CPU system - Debian and SO 5.2 question

[Andreas von Heydwolff <pirmin2@gmx.net>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 00:22:01 +0100 Andreas von Heydwolff <pirmin2@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>
> > Am fed up with Windows on a single workstation in a small non-profit 
> > organization, used mainly for word processing and mailing. This weekend 
> > I have to reinstall the OS, data are on a second HDD since the last 
> > major crash so it won't be too much trouble. I intend to make it dual 
> > boot with Debian as fallback or even soon primary OS.
> >
> > Would it make a difference in performance on the 233MHz MMX CPU and 48Mb 
> > RAM system whether I choose potato or Woody?
>
> As long as you stay with a 2.2 kernel, it should not make a difference.
> Still, I'd go upgrade to woody, just to get newer packages.
>
> Note: Stay away from GNOME & KDE!!!  Try a window manager like fvwm
> or xfce or blackbox.  Sylpheed is a good, lightweight GUI email
> program.
>
> There's a _possibility_ that you could use WordPerfect 6.0 DOS in
> the Debian DOS emulator.  That way, you could stay in console mode.
>
>
> > Is the Star Office 5.2 address book reliable enough for mail merges, or 
> > has any other word processor (Applixware?) an address book that can be 
> > used for mail merges?
>
> Even though I'm old enough to know what mail merge is (did it with
> WordStar and DataStar on a KayProII CP/M "transportable"), I 
> couldn't tell you about SO52.


Thanks, Ron, and nate (sorry for posting directly to you - Mozilla does 
this as default).

I've tried in the past to get hold of a copy of WP for DOS. EBay sells 
it, to my astonishment, at respectable prices. Will have to think about 
compatibility with what's already there. I followed WordPerfect mailing 
lists when Corel got into Linux and there were discussions about WP and 
DOS emulator. I cannot remember whether someone actually tried using it 
and had success.

I looked at Sylpheed and liked it the other day, is it already stable 
enough for everyday use? I noticed that there was also Sylpheed-claw 
which sounded like it was still under heavy development. It did not 
display umlauts but this may be a .gtkrc issue.

Andreas