On Wednesday 02 November 2005 16:56, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > Greetings all, > > Our local Free Software User Group has a large number of donated > computers, each having 64MB of RAM and a PII or PIII processor. We are > intending to configure these computers with a useful set of software and > make them available for use by low-income people in our community. We > have no budget for buying more memory. > > My question is, if you had a computer with 64 MB of RAM, and you wanted > to give the novice user the ability to browse the web, use e-mail, > instant messaging, create documents and spreadsheets, etc. What window > manager and GUI applications would you choose? > > -- > > Mitch Wiedemann > Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association > http://ithacafreesoftware.org
I've set up an old 233 MHz laptop with XFCE. It really has alot of the features one needs. Rox-Filer is a nice file manager to use with it. I seem to remember reading that you can set up XFCE in kiosk mode too. -- C. Hurschler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
