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.
Attaining your goal will be tied entirely to who your father is when it comes to assessing the system. Is he interested in what you propose, or is this a project of your own? If he is _interested_ then wm's which deviate more from a Windows perspective will not be as much of an issue, especially if he's willing to listen to the Knowledgable One (you ;-) patiently walk through a brief working tour of it. Blackbox/fluxbox come to my mind as very easy to use wm's which appear to be fairly light. Along with simple features such as window shading, multiple desktops, and window resizing/moving using the alt keys, an interested person could quickly see some nice things about being different. You mention scientific writing. What type? I personally use LyX for all my work (I teach chemistry at a community college) and find it does all I want, with LaTeX as its backbone. The only time I ever need OO.org is to allow me to see/print out .doc files from admin types at school who don't understand/care about more universal forms such as pdf files. On your machine the primary holdup to a system such as this would be memory--the likes of which cost about a $1/stick at our local "re-compute" store. If he likes what he sees then maybe a hardware upgrade would happen automagically... ;) HTH, Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
