On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:56:28 +0200 "Linux Maniac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All! > > My girlfriend is starting to write her thesis, and I don't want her to > loose any data because of winblows. > > Her machine is a 166MHz pentium with 32 MB RAM. > > I want to install Mandrake 9.0 with blackbox or icewm, but I also need a > good word processor. My personal favorite is OpenOffice.org, but I don't > know if that would be alright for that configuration. > > Please share with me experiences of such machines + Mandrake, and tell > me which word processor shoul I us (it has to be able to export in > word97 format.) Alas the current Mandrake installation will not work with that hardware; according to the 9.0 details page* 64MB is minimal and 128MB recommended. There seem to be two choices: If you can, somehow, add more memory (preferably up to 192MB or 256MB - there is no such thing as too much memory), use Mandrake 9.0 and OOo, which will input and output in Word format. If you can't, the best solution is probably Mandrake 7.0 (still on the mirrors) and AbiWord, which is not bad and has as minimum requirement a 486 with 16MB (!), but has two big disadvantages; i. no support for tables (probably fatal for a thesis); ii. no Word output (but it can do Rich Text Format [RTF], which any version of Word can interpret without losing formatting). As it turns out I managed to get an old IBM Thinkpad, with a Pentium 233 and 160MB memory, and OOo working quite well with Mandrake 8.2 for thesis-writing. Alastair * http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/90
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