On Sunday 23 Feb 2003 9:41 am, Alan L Tyree wrote: > Hi, > My neighbour is a 94 yo (that is not a mistake!) woman who has never > used computers before but wants to have email and web browsing for some > courses that she is taking. > > I have an old HP 333mhz machine that I am going to set up for her. > Trouble is, a full RH installation is pretty sluggish on it. I thought I > would skip Gnome and go for Icewm or Windowmaker, use Galeon as the web > browser. What would be a decent simple graphical mail client? Evolution > seems sluggish on the machine as well as being serious overkill. > > Any suggestions much appreciated. And we might set a world record for > the oldest first time Linux user!
The 333Mhz is plenty fast enough for X and KDE 3 but you need plenty of RAM (at least 128MB) I use XFCE (today - I like to change a bit) as my desktop and kmail for email on my K6 II/500 (384MB RAM). Kmail is easy to use and fast and KDE 3 Gnome 2.0 and E work fine. -- Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
