On Wednesday 05 January 2005 09:36 am, 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. > > Vegard
No. You need a minimum of a Pentium 233 with 64 MB RAM to have much success running any GUI + Openoffice, even xfce. Of course you could run a text based application to do text editing, such as Emacs... But I like mcedit. -- peace, Alvin Smith http://www.alvinsmith.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
