On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 01:35:50PM +0300, Eliran Gonen wrote: > Alexander Maryanovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > A friend of mine had her windows (98) die a horrible death and she asked me > > to reinstall it. I told her that I could install a better operating system > > called Linux instead. Now, this would be fine and dandy, as she doesn't > > need anything special that Linux doesn't support, but her computer is very > > old. I haven't been told the specs exactly, yet, but my guess would be > > something like Pentium 200Mhz 64MB and probably an under 500MB HD. Which > > distro could I possibly install that will run, will be useable > > (performance/responsiveness wise), and would still have the basics you'd > > expect from a desktop - graphical browsing, email, very basic (hebrew) word > > processing...? Oh, and it needs to support FAT32 as she needs to keep her D > > drive. > > Perhaps RedHat 6.0/6.2 with Gnome 1.4 or Kde 2 ?
But this distro is not supported anymore. There are many many known holes in that settings (even with all available security patches applied). I wouldn't dare surf the web with such a workstation. In addition: the memory usage of KDE 2 may be even more than the one of KDE3.1 (when you strip unnecessary eye candies from both). It is certainly not much better. The same applies for the CPU usage. And the Hebrew support is rather poor. Not to mention that gnome 1.4 has rather poor Hebrew support, compared to 2.0. But it features a bloated Nautilus and bonobo-ed evolution and gnumeric. So it is not *that* lean. My main point is that we should take recent components and not use older versions. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
