On 04/17/2008 03:34 AM, mike scott wrote: > On 16 Apr 2008 at 12:46, Richard W. Cormier wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am on a student tech team for Messalonskee High School. One of the >> projects that the tech team is taking on is giving away computers to the >> people who don't have/cant afford a computer. We are trying to decide >> weather or not we should use Linux or Windows 98. I am looking for some >> freeware and I was wondering if openoffie works on windows 98? > > Very old versions of OOo will run on w98, I believe. > > But do your people a favour, and provide linux - I'd suggest ubuntu. > > > Please note you are not subscribed to this list, and may > therefore miss answers. http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for > more information. Replies to list only please. > >
And to add to Mike's advise & others that did not cc you; Win98 is no longer supported & in fact Windows XP is soon to be no longer supported. See: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx I highly recommend that you go to linux. You'd be surprised, linux can breath new life into old hardware. You might find these helpful; http://www.accrc.org/ ACCRC just had an installfest in March with Untangle: <http://www.untangle.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=351&Itemid=139> Also see: http://wiki.untangle.com/index.php/National_Installfest_for_School and <http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/040808-ubuntu-breathes-new-life-into.html> Nearly all of my linux systems (Ubuntu) are on hardware that was thrown out (primarily by schools that thought they needed to buy bigger & better because of Vista). I have systems from 350Mhz to 2.4Ghz and they all run just fine - providing of course that you have sufficient drive space and memory. That said; some _very_ old hardware with limited memory (64MB for example) runs better with Win98 and older MS Office. On those systems, if the license and software is already in place, it generally is better just to leave them as they are. Good luck with your project & please consider subscribing to the list so that you can see responses from other OOo users. -- You have been cc'd on this reply as you have posted to an open OOo mailing list. Please see: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for details and how to subscribe or view the archives so that you may see responses from other OOo users. Please *only* reply to [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
