Re: Debian on an old PC
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:36:44PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa 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.
Forget openoffice.org with 16MB RAM. It needs at least 64MB, but I
wouldn't use it with less than 128.
Frank
>
> Vegard
>
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