On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:21:43PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > Jacob S. wrote: > > > >Unfortunately, even OOo is going to be slow for them. Upgrade the ram to > >at least 256MB, if you can. > > I'd like to, but I doubt my budget allows me to. > But I'll ask them whether they're willing to pay for more speed. >
If you want it small, try abiword. I run it on my 48megabyte 100MHz Pentium 100. Performance is adequate. Window manager is icewm. > > What I was referring to was preventing them from deleting THEIR OWN > important files. My step-dad almost killed the windows '98 PC by > randomly using drag & drop in windows explorer. > > I thougt of some kind of cron job that backups their important files to > the second HD or something like that. Any ideas? you might use CVS or subversion . . . None of them are, as far as I know, designed as backup programs, but they might do the job in an interesting manner. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]