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Re: Debian on an old PC



On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:07 +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 08:43 am, Alvin Smith wrote:
> >
> >> No.  You need a minimum of a Pentium 233 with 64 MB RAM to have much
> >> success  running any GUI + Openoffice, even xfce.
> >
> > And realistically on the user-side, you're looking more at getting a
> > machine that will run KDE with decent performance if you're trying to
> > convince a Windows user.
> >
> For a total replacement of OS I know KDE is the only one to convince the
> windows-fanatics, but that will have to wait untill he gets a faster PC.
> Luckely the man who are to be convinced care more about the text editing
> tools than all other details. Hopefully only this slow PC with a decent
> texteditor will convince him that open-source is the best option.

If *text* editing is really the most important thing, then why not
stay in console mode?  vim or joe should fit the bill.

> I will take Nate's advice and try with iceWM... Afterall, it doesn't hurt
> to try, a slow machine with linux is better than one with windoze!!
> 
> Thanks, best regards from Vegard
> 
> 

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