On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:46:11PM +0000, ian wrote:
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
Possible if you dig up an old distribution. Something like fvwm and netscape 4. Probably not too useful.
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
If they use SIMMs it could be hard to find upgrades.
thin clients.
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