On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Chris Hellyar wrote:
> Just to put the cat among the parrots...
>
> I wouldn't recommend putting OpenOffice under linux onto anything slower
> than a i586 at 400Mhz, with 128Mb of ram. If the machines they have
> are in the normal vein of free machines they will not meet that grade.
>
> I'm likely to start something ugly here, but OpenOffice on linux with
> (for eg) a P166 and 32Mb of ram is just not a good advert for OSS.
> Windows 98 and Office 97 will piss all over it for performance and
> usability. Especially in the environment the advertiser is in.
>
I used WP8 with fvwm on such a machine for a couple of years.
Phil.
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