On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 14:05, Grahame Leon-Smith at Free Computers wrote:
Ian et al
Can we support the FLOSSIE initiative by pre-installing an appropriate version of Linux and OpenOffice on all the computers that we refurbish ?
We have still not been able to find a basic Linux OS that is suitable for a Pentium 1 machine with 31Mb RAM.
It would be nice to be able to launch this at the FLOSSIE conference.
I don't think you are going to have much joy in 32 meg. Not unless you
dispense with a GUI - but then you are talking Wordperfect on DOS type
image. OpenOffice.org is not going to run on a machine with < 64 meg at
all satisfactorily. There is currently a long discussion thread on an
OO.o Lite for this sort of purpose in discuss@OO.o and the implications
are probably writing something new from scratch that uses the OO.o file
format. By the time that is produced 64 meg machines will be common
place second hand so you might as well just use one of these with
Windows 98 or a standard GNU/Linux distro. or look for RAM upgrades for
older machines to get them to 64 or 128 meg. Best use P1s with 32 meg as
thin clients.
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ian