On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> dear newbees,
> have got a question: friends of mine make part of a little
> ecological organisation, they haven't really got an office, but what
> they have is a very old computermachine, i think it's a 286 or 386
> and a few bits of ram ;-)
Which, though? Linux will not run on a 286. It will run fine in text
mode on a 386 with 4mb ram and a swap file. With 8mb you could try an X
server and a few small X apps. Joe is all the word processor I use.
That will run on a 386 with 4mb, no worry. Slackware is probably the
best general-purpose distro for small machines. I've installed
slackware 3.4 on 2 4mb machines. It isn't easy, but it can be done.
Minix will run on a 286, I think, but I've never used it.
> 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?
>
> wish you some greetings
> mek
>
Lawson
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