Linux needs at least a 386 to run. And, if I recall correctly, at least 4
megs of RAM. For such minimal systems, I'd look either at Slackware (which
has a greater range of install options for old, weird hardware than the
other majors) or some of the "tiny" Linux distributions that fit on a few
floppies (e.g., Trinux, "monkey" Linux ... check in "distributions" at the
metalab ftp site).
Only word processor I can think of that runs without X (an old system like
your friends have won't run X) is joe, a Wordstar-3.3-like app.
At 11:00 PM 6/16/99 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote [in part]:
...they have is a very old computermachine, i think it's a 286 or 386
>and a few bits of ram ;-)
>they only use it for typing some documents and pamflets by using some
>kind of wordperfect 0.0.0, but they really would like to use
>linux and throw their DOS from the hd.
> now i heard and read about minimum system reqirements for redhat
>and suse. but is there any kind of linux what they could use? and
>some old wordperfect-kind of textprocessor?
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