-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian Lunergan wrote: > Hi folks: > > If I may, I'd like to contribute an observation to this whole "older computer" > debate. > > It all seems to have started with somebody's comment that they didn't feel any > obligation to support those with older machines. That's all well and good, but > who is he/she to dictate what type of machine or OS I should run? I run an AMD > 800Mhz with 256 of memory and, while I know the rabid *nix supporters will > sneer at it, it runs just fine on Win98SE. Thanks very much. If the > implication > is that OOo should only support a certain flavour of *nix on the latest, > greatest, and fastest of machines while running like a dog on anything else or > not at all I will simply stop using it and look elsewhere for good software. > > Why should there be such disrespect for other people's choice in equipment, > OS, > or application software? It always seems to give way to a phallic, need for > speed argument that brings back those tales of a bunch of little boys having a > pissing contest to see whose equipment is the biggest and best.
I think any distro. of Linux would run just fine on that box. 'Don't know who told you otherwise. Fred - -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in our software, Never! We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost to you, at this time. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDA56dfv/K/mN942ARAtdHAJ40hvxoi1Ef5O8m25n4vNN5zwGDFACcDX7L z1f4hUub0T7J7NSWNerWZtw= =ZGyP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
