On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 02:36 +0900, tora - Takamichi Akiyama wrote: > Gary Dean Engineering wrote: > > One of the older machines that we are (sadly) somewhat attached to is a > 486 running MS DOS. It only has a 3.5" floppy drive and is not networked. > > How much memory does the machine have? > How much capacity of hard disk does it have? > Is it okay to use Linux, instead of Windows or MS-DOS? > > System Requirements for OpenOffice.org > http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs.html > > Is the machine bootable from CD-ROM with/without use of a floppy disk? > If so, it might be worth trying one of the CD bootable Linux > distributions, such as Knoppix, which includes OpenOffice.org.
Dear Gary, I can imagine how fond you must be of a machine which has given you an amazing working life, but in reality 486s were landfill 8 years ago. These days in a Community market you should be able to pick up a respectable Pentium 4 sub 2Ghz with keyboard, mouse and screen for around $50-$100. This would be a much more confident expression of your faith in the viability of your business. You could run a lean distro like SLAX and load a recent version of OpenOffice.org onto that. You should get another couple of years out of that. Cheers Andrew Greig Melbourne, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: cdrom-unsubscr...@distribution.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: cdrom-h...@distribution.openoffice.org
