On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:36:44PM +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.
No way, forget running that on a P100 with 16MB. I am frankly surprised windows 98SE runs on it either. slink might run ok on it at the console. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ ( t | i | m | @ | i | t | . | k | p | t | . | c | c ) \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ GPG key fingerprint = 1DEE CD9B 4808 F608 FBBF DC21 2807 D7D3 09CA 85BF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
