they 'd better use a 386 as the 286 is not well supported by
multi-tasking OSes
they will run into the problem of disk and ram requirements. A few years
ago, linux distributions were fitting on any computer but this is no more
the case (standard computers are way more equiped than 386 were).
they should look for specialy small distributions made for that purpose
(i mean neither redhat nor suse or whatever big distrib).
the last worperfect do run on linux (corel gives it for free fo
individuals), but they will need to run X (needs some disk and ram to be
efficient).
hope this helps
pascal
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Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 11:26 PM
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Subject: 286 or 386
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 ;-)
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
