> 16 MB is not enough for Open Office . Forget your idea, your father is > going to believe that Win98 is better than linux :) > Some time ago, I was testing several slow machines in order to replace > some Windows 98 boxes. > Running Win98, Office97 and IE 5 with 16 MB RAM the machine is very very > slow, but is usable. > To obtain something similar or may be worst performance you need a light > window-manager (like IceWM) and at leat 64 MB RAM. > An alternative, but taking a totally diferent way is use the slow machine > as a light client, using LTSP or PXES, but you will need a powerful > machine as a server, a network and a lot of work, but the performance is > better. > > Norberto
Thanks for the help everybody!!! I'll just buy me some more RAM, and run debian with a light wm. If its slow it wont be the end of the world... Cheers Vegard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
