On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 23:06 -0600, Robert Citek wrote: >> At work we are giving gifts to a needy family for the holidays. These >> gifts are donated items from employees. One of the gifts is a >> computer, specifically a 600 MHz PIII with 64 MB RAM running Windows >> 2000. No Ethernet card so malware shouldn't be too much of a problem. >> Nor did it have anything other than Windows. So I copied Portable >> Apps to it, including Open Office 2.4, Gimp, VLC, and Audacity. >> OpenOffice and Gimp are pretty slow, but they work. >> >> Kind of neat to see the latest apps running on an old machine with an old OS. > > Could ByteWorks donate some RAM? Even an old machine can perform OK > with decent software and enough memory.
Perhaps next time. The machine is already off to the group that is handling the distribution of gifts. Regards, - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
