At Wednesday, 5 January 2005, you 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 > > well, that machine is a slow machine for windows too ... the PII 200 MHz machine i use has KDE on it as a desktop. it is functional but slow. i think it would be slow w/ win98 as well. what is the alternative, to buy newer windows software? if so, spend your $ on a motherboard/cpu combo from a place like pricewatch.com and install debian on it.
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