On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 04:48, Charlie Oriez wrote:
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> Someone in Central America saw my linux links webpage and asked for
> advice.
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> see anything in the hardware below that would preclude using
> Mandrake 8.0?
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> * Is more stable than Win 95 SR2 (what I use now, which seems to be
> the least unstable member of the Windows family)
> * Will run fine on my current hardware (Celeron 366 MHz w/32MB RAM)
> * Free or extremely cheap, both the OS and apps
> * Can have a Windows look alike GUI so my cybercafé's customers will
> not have to ask for help or even notice that it's not Windows
> * The time I invest installing and learning a new OS will be less
> than the time I now waste messing with Windows' instability and
> quirks
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> Charles Oriez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The RAM is too little to seriously run KDE or GNOME. Xfce or IceWM would be
good choices. IceWM can be made to look very much like Win95.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
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