On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 12:50, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A friend of mine had her windows (98) die a horrible death and she asked me > to reinstall it. I told her that I could install a better operating system > called Linux instead. Now, this would be fine and dandy, as she doesn't > need anything special that Linux doesn't support, but her computer is very > old. I haven't been told the specs exactly, yet, but my guess would be > something like Pentium 200Mhz 64MB and probably an under 500MB HD. Which > distro could I possibly install that will run, will be useable > (performance/responsiveness wise), and would still have the basics you'd > expect from a desktop - graphical browsing, email, very basic (hebrew) word > processing...? Oh, and it needs to support FAT32 as she needs to keep her D > drive. > > Also note that while I'm not a complete newbie, I'm not extremely linux > savvy and would prefer not to spend weeks installing Slackware or roll my > own distro :-) > > > Thanks, > Alexander (aka Sasha) Maryanovsky. > >
I've got a number of such machines (Intel Pentium/AMD K6 166/200/233 with 48/64MB of SDRAM) running RedHat 7.3 and RedHat 8 using the icewm window manager. (http://www.icewm.org/) Icewm can mimic the Windows Explorer look'n'feel and will run nicely on anything above 486DX/33... -- Take care, Gilboa Davara XML - Systems Israel. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 972 - 054 968 909 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
