On Monday 17 November 2003 20:57, Matthew K. Lee wrote: > You could also put together a medium sized system and let their current > systems act as dumb terminals. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ted Kat. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [sclug-generallist] desktop linux > > --- 02fun-u2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well i have two people that work at a non profit the systems that > > they use are not that great one is a p166 and the other is a pII 233 > > or 350 or so w/ 64 ram. > > > > there systems are way unstable crash a lot. the pII could cut linux > > but the p166 i'm not so sure. > > > > well i was looking at setting them up with a nice desktop distro. > > there big things are e-mail, word and excel. so i was thinking a nice > > setup with open office, mozilla and mozilla mail, ximon. > > > > for the most part they need things that work with what the have now > > so as not to have to retype everything and just works. they can use > > there computers well but aren't technicial. > > > > well the p166 might have to go. so i was also looking into maybe so > > new hardware. i guess the optimal would for both of them to have the > > same hardware. like a pII350 to pIII 500. get them two standard > > systems. > > One way to keep the 166 running would be to run a non-popular desktop > manager like blackbox, it has a small foot print. Granted that Mozilla > and openoffice are mem-hogs and may run much slower but at least with > blackbox they will not be running in swap space. I've used it for my > p200 laptop and it works well. > > Just a thought to keep cost down. > > > > ===== > Ted Katseres
I have RH 8.0 on a p-166 and it works passably well. I put 256mb sdram in it though. Open Office seems a little sluggish, but it works. I use the Gnome desktop on it. Dave
