On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 15:36 +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.
As Harland said, this is a a bit too low powered. OpenOffice will be slow to load even with 128MB RAM, but will function. I don't know what PC prices are like in .no, but here in .us, you can get a minimally adequate box for only US$300. http://www.sub300.com/info.htm Tiny has one for GBP319. http://www.tiny.com/packages.php?prodid=10987 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. All of the "reporting" about Laci Peterson & Michael Jackson reminds me of the Don Henley song "Dirty Laundry": "Can we do the operation? Is the head dead yet? You know, the boys in the newsroom got a running bet. Get the widow on the set, we need dirty laundry."
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