Re: Debian on an old PC
At Wednesday, 5 January 2005, you wrote:
>> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:54 +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
>>> I need some advice. Is debian fit for a Pentium 100MHz PC with
16MB RAM
>>> and approx 4Gb harddisk? Are there anyone who has experience
with such a
>>> slow machine running debian (or any other linux dist)?
>>
>> Depends on what software you decide to install on it.
>>
>> What do you want to do with the box?
>>
>With this box I am trying to convince my father that linux is an
excellent
>replacement for windows98se for writing textdocuments and maybe some
>scientific documents. He needs a machine with a simple gui, openoffice.
org
>and some other simple programs. For the window-manager I had xfce in
>mind, which is as I have understood, the easiest to lern of the small
>wm's.
>
>Vegard
>
>
well, that machine is a slow machine for windows too ... the PII
200 MHz machine i use has KDE on it as a desktop. it is functional
but slow. i think it would be slow w/ win98 as well. what is the
alternative, to buy newer windows software? if so, spend your $ on
a motherboard/cpu combo from a place like pricewatch.com and install
debian on it.
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