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Re: Debian on an old PC



On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 13:17 -0300, Norberto Altalef wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:54 +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
[snip]
> 
> 16 MB is not enough for Open Office . Forget your idea,  your father is
> going to believe that Win98 is better than linux :)
> Some time ago, I was testing several slow machines in order to replace
> some Windows 98 boxes.
> Running Win98, Office97 and IE 5 with 16 MB RAM the machine is very very
> slow, but is usable.
> To obtain something similar or may be worst performance you need a light
> window-manager (like IceWM) and at leat 64 MB RAM.

Instead of OOo the pig, why not AbiWord?

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