Re: Debian on an old PC
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:31:10PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
>> I got hold of 128MB RAM from a friend. Now there is a total of
>> 128+16=144MB RAM. Don't you think that is enough for OO.org and WM when
>> he's prepared for a slow machine?
>
> FWIW I installed OO.org on my pentium MMX 200MHz with 128Mb RAM the
> other day (after reading your email). It takes a while to start but
> works fine after that. If you use a sensible window manager (not KDE or
> gnome, maybe icewm) I guess it would work fine on your old computer,
> apart from taking a while to start up.
>
> It will be a lot slower than the appropriate version of microsoft office
> for that machine, though.
Thanks for your experiences. I'll remember this!
> I think we would end up with much better software if all developers were
> forced to use old, slow computers :) I remember how good and fast the
> software was on my old RISC OS Acorn with 4MB RAM (Impression, Sibelius,
> Artworks). Something is seriously wrong with the way people write
> software these days!
>
You have a point.
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Best regards Vegard
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