-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > but they realize that they ought to not do that anymore
That's great. This is the first step. The second step (installing and introducing the new system) if done well makes the difference. > Hardware: > Pentium II 233 MHz > 2 GB > RAM 64 Mb > on board sound and video > external modem softk You can always use old, deprecated distros if you want to. If we're going to base this on current existing desktop environments and default installs, you're going to have a problem. I have an old P166 with 128MB RAM at home running barbones ubuntu with XFCE and so far everything is ok, a bit slow but usable and I only use this box to surf the net and do some very minor editing in svn trunk. > What they want to do: > to record tapes to mp3 Never tried this > web browsing No problem with this > games Hmmm....emacs tetris perhaps? > office suite Not OOo please...AbiWord and Gnumeric perhaps... > chat client Not an issue... > scribus Hmmm....next please... > video and music playing capabilities Decoding music files ain't really an issue with such machines...video however is a different story. However, my old Vaio P166 makes a great LTSP client though. Jerome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFChGWbuJQObal7aaARAr6ZAJoCrCY8ltgFB5bJVgyZxmp7oB9TOwCfUAa3 WROVwk4gELr9ObL2Mc+ZM84= =MuEG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
