> 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.
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
