>> > 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. >
16 MB is not enough for Open Office . Forget your idea, your father is going to believe that Win98 is better than linux :) Some time ago, I was testing several slow machines in order to replace some Windows 98 boxes. Running Win98, Office97 and IE 5 with 16 MB RAM the machine is very very slow, but is usable. To obtain something similar or may be worst performance you need a light window-manager (like IceWM) and at leat 64 MB RAM. An alternative, but taking a totally diferent way is use the slow machine as a light client, using LTSP or PXES, but you will need a powerful machine as a server, a network and a lot of work, but the performance is better. Norberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
