Thanks for sharing your experience. This project is highly useful and relevant. This can give a second lease of life to number of 486/P-I lying as junk. Linux can make them perfectly usable.
I did some thing similar for Linux Demo Day project back in 1999. I want to add a few software to your rich selection: 1. Gnumeric - an excellent light weight spread sheet 2. mpg123 - A command line mp3 songs player. My only choice to play music in background in 486DX4 machine. All other software will slow the system down to crawling speed 3. mutt - if you are not addicted to GUI, you will like this, very powerful features 4. emacs - this is a software no one should leave out. Almost an operating system by its own right On 3/1/06, J. Bakshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ************ P R O J E C T A N N O U N C E M E N T *********** > ======================================= > Dear list, > > I may draw the attention of those of you > > * Running Linux GUI with OLD H/W (PI or so) and not happy with speed. > or > * Have latest H/W but always eager to get more & more speed. > > > Since long I have been working on a personal project. My aim is to > design a Linux box which can still run HAPPILY & PROUDLY with PI 266MHz+32MB > and definitely with the latest S/W. No compromise with the S/W features. > <--snip--> -- Regards Soumyanath Chatterjee -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
