Robert and others: On 12/25/05, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Three questions: > > 1) would folks here recommend Kubuntu or Ubuntu on a low-end machine: > 450 MHz, <128 MB RAM, 6 GB HDD? > 2) how scriptable is the install for either? > 3) how good is modem support with either?
I set up OpenBSD 3.8 on a Pentium I 166 MHz machine with a 1.45 GB Hard Drive and 95 MB of RAM. Here is what I have installed: Firefox 1.0.6 Thunderbird 1.0.6 Gimp 2.2.8 Xfig - vector drawing tool. Rox filer - a drag n' drop file manager which can also display image previews. WindowMaker desktop hpijs print drivers R - A statistics and graphing package. Gnuplot Ted rtf word processor Gnuplot mpg123 - mp3 player Xaumix - Audio mixer and volume control SC - curses spreadsheet Xpostit - post it notes Emacs - editor Xpdf - a pdf reader Some of the apps were quite slow to load. All in all the computer was usable. It did not seem to run any slower than Windows 2000. I was really impressed that OpenBSD could install and run well on this older computer. One thing I discovered was that there are no longer any parallel port printers available. At WalMart, they were all USB. I can get a USB PCI card but I wonder if that would work ( http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3425272 ). Will this card work in such an older computer? -- Kind regards, Jonathan _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
