On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:55, HappyEvilSlosh wrote: > I have a friend whose having issues with her PC and would is quite keen > on swapping to linux. > > Her current system is a pentium 2 something with 3 gigs space and about > 64M ram (or at least that's what I remember being told). > > All she users her PC for is internet, e-mail, and documents, and > noteworthy and keeping that in mind I was thinking maybe DamnSmall Linux > along with firefox,thunderbird, OpenOffice and xpdf or Acrobat Reader, > but that's not the problem, the real problem has been noteworthy. > > I had a quick look online and came across two programs jazz++ and muse > but neither said (as far as I could find) whether or not they could read > noteworthy's (.nwc) file format. Does anyone here know if they can or of > an alternative if they can't? It unfortunately needs to be noteworthy as > she is swapping the files with someone else who apparently doesn't want > to change.
imho, 64 megs and OpenOffice are incompatible. That machine is middle to late 90s and you can't expect a machine of that age to run modern software. OOo is a memory hog of the first water, the machine will be continuously swapping and thus wear out the disk pdq, to say nothing of the fact that it'll go as slow as a wet week. In a couple of words. Memory expansion. It's not expensive, 256Mbytes is ~$100. -- C. S.
