On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 20:26 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a W98 SE user (Oh! My God! Four letter words should be forbidden
> here!!). My computer is quite old (Pentium Pro, 64Mb RAM) and the few
> things I do with it are becoming increasingly slow.
>
> Though I don't know much about Linux (I've never installed it, never
> used a PC with it installed) it is reputed to make things easier and
> faster than MS products (less code lines, I guess).
>
> What should I do to start from scratch? I know most of you will advise
> me to change my computer, but that is not what I am looking for and,
> by the way, it will also turn Windows faster (Four letter words
> again!! Sorry, I have to behave better).
>
> This has most probably discussed in this list zillions of times, but I
> am new (joined it yesterday) here and when browsing the archives there
> are LOTS of e-mails.
>
> Plain questions below:
> 1- Would it be advisable to turn to Linux?
> 2- Reasons?
> 3- How should I do so?
> 4- Should I expect a steep learning curve?
> 5- If I just use my computer to type things, use home Excel sheets,
> send and receive e-mails with Outlook, browse the web with Firefox,
> and not much more: What should I expect to improve with Linux?
> 6- Which of the distros is best suited for old and very limited
> computers? I should also tell you that I am "old and limited" being
> almost forty YO.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Martin
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For an older computer, I can't really recommend a lot of reasons to
switch, other than that the types of applications you use shouldn't
crash nearly as often as they do now. You mentioned that you use
Firefox; as far as I know, Firefox was originally written for Linux and
ported to Windows. As for Outlook, Evolution does pretty much the exact
same things (with the exception of virii-spreading - at a university I
attended some of the students referred to MS Outlook as "Microsoft Virus
And Worm Sharing Program". I use Evolution and I am very happy with it.
For an older computer, I would recommend Red Hat 9. It's not actively
supported anymore, but it should work, and if you need help, their
mailing list is pretty good. Red Hat 8 was my first Linux, although 9
is better in many regards and still runs well on old hardware. If you
have a CD burner, you can find ISOs of the install CDs. It's learning
curve is not too steep. My wife and I began our migration to Linux in
2003, and now we use it almost exclusively. My wife uses Windows for
games that she can't play on Linux (and that's only because I don't know
how to configure wine) and also because all her school assignments are
online and the school uses Windows and Microsoft is well known for not
playing well with others. Hope this helps.
-Michael Sullivan-
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