Re: Using Linux on a Family PC
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:21:43PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote:
> Jacob S. wrote:
> >
> >Unfortunately, even OOo is going to be slow for them. Upgrade the ram to
> >at least 256MB, if you can.
>
> I'd like to, but I doubt my budget allows me to.
> But I'll ask them whether they're willing to pay for more speed.
>
If you want it small, try abiword. I run it on my 48megabyte 100MHz
Pentium 100. Performance is adequate. Window manager is icewm.
>
> What I was referring to was preventing them from deleting THEIR OWN
> important files. My step-dad almost killed the windows '98 PC by
> randomly using drag & drop in windows explorer.
>
> I thougt of some kind of cron job that backups their important files to
> the second HD or something like that. Any ideas?
you might use CVS or subversion . . . None of them are, as far as I know,
designed as backup programs, but they might do the job in an interesting manner.
-- hendrik
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