Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1587 mails)

[samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Samy Elashmawy)]

>perhaps can't really get themselves into quite the same trouble as with
>Windows....  ?  Or should I wait another year or two....?
>

At least they won't be able to load those pesky games. 

I would sugest you go for it on a trial basis with a few users who you feel
can pretty nmuch leqarn on there own , and who wont need 24/7 handholding.
or you could go as far as puting two boxes on there desk. Linux runs nicly
on old hardware , you must have some setting somewhere , just try to add as
much ram , However with xwindows you will want something more powerfull
than a 486 , go for pentuims and just add more ram.

I have two cpus in the office , the third and fourth sort of fell by the
wayside , It seams that once a year while I am overseas , Windows screws up
, and needs to be reinstalled. I am currently working on setting up a
server here with linux on it for the data. next as soon as I sort out the
software issues , i will add/convert to linux. With the dual boot feature ,
I can run both , and slowly move the apps over to linux.

I set up an old 486/66 with 8m of ram as a samba server , and was shocked
at how well it preformed. It was chioking on win 3.1 , but runs linux very
nicely , However I wouoldent dream of running xwindows on it , So I'll make
use of it elswere.

Bottom line , linux takes more time to set up , but you end up with better
stability . Give it a try.
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