On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:06:51PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:50:20AM -0500, cecil wrote: > > I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof > > requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do > > to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( > > > > Cecil > > With the replies so far, I guess you now know that X will run on your machine. > Knoppix might have troubles, though, because its autoconfiguration may be > designed for a larger machine (it reserves a 10 megabyte RAMdisk, for > example, and thst's a *lot* of your RAM, and may no longer have space for X. >
Most modern desktops and live cds, including knoppix and friends won't run on that machine and it will probably take some time to set up, but I also ran linux originally with X and fvwm on a 486 and a 1GB HD. startoffice 5 (what is now openoffice) ran on it at the time, but was _very_ slow, so openoffice will probably be a problem. Mozilla probably won't like it too much either since its a resource hog, but there are lighter variants (firefox maybe, epiphany probably). > As for minimal X, I once (ten or fifteen years ago) used an X terminal > with only 8 meg of RAM. It worked fine, though all my applications and > even the window manager had to run on another machine! > > May I recommend abiword? It will also generate word files, and it's a good > deal smaller than OpenOffice. > > -- hendrik > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
