Depending on the OS, what you describe should work.  Older hardware is severely
limited and you'll need to be really patient installing anything.

The question really isn't "Can I?" because the answer is usually "Yes".  The
question is more like, "Should I?" because the answer becomes a guarded, "Probably".

Ben Huot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*:
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>I was wondering if any of you think I would have enough memory to run
>LyX with a lightweight windows manager like fluxbox on a Pentium 200
>with 48 MB RAM - it is maxed out in memory. This is the main program I
>want to use on Linux that I can't use on Windows. If this works I can
>tell people that Linux will work on low end PCs.
>
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