[lug] M$ does it again...down under

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

I run Linux/XFree86/StarOffice/icewm on my P266MMX/160MB/4GB laptop.  Everything
runs reasonably well except Mozilla and StarOffice (both are annoyingly slow).  
I guess what I'm saying is that I can do it, but I much prefer my Athlon
1.1GHz/1GB/15GB desktop :-)

Slowless aside, the only reason I want to replace this laptop is that it is
currently held together with duct tape--not something I want to take to a
customer site.

To come closer to answering your question, I used to have a P120/32MB/2.1GB
laptop.  StarOffice and Mozilla are still usable, but barely.  I have since
given this machine to my mother for e-mail and web browsing (with Mozilla).  She
hates it. 

Dhruva

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:11:17PM -0600, John Hernandez wrote:
> David wrote:
> > 
> > > The good PR move now would be for Open Source volunteers to
> > > set up a legal, non-MS system for this charity, and publicize it.
> > >
> > > Evelyn Mitchell
> > > efm at tummy.com
> > 
> > This seems to me to be the most positive and appropriate comment in
> > this thread, by far.  Thank you, Evelyn.
> > 
> > How much work is involved?
> > 
> 
> Interesting.  How good are the prospects of running a Linux/XFree86/StarOffice/Konqueror setup on, say, a P-133 32MB RAM?  Will it be starved for resources and hopelessly slow?  Or will it be even more responsive and usable than Windows/Office/IE 95 on a similar system?
> 
> I think that Linux once had a reputation as being a good choice for older/outdated systems.  Does that still hold true with the modern suite of software that accompanies most distros?  Or has it made a shift to higher-end systems?