Re: [seul-edu] appropriate lightweight distribution

[Manuel Gutierrez Algaba <algaba@gmx.net>]

El Vie 14 Dic 2001 00:33, escribió:
> I am planning on rebirthing some decrepid P133 16MB 1GB Windows machines as
> Linux word processing and internet terminals.  Can anyone recommend a
> distribution?  I was planning on using Red Hat, since it seems the most
> widely available, but someone suggested that it might be too large and that
> I should try a ‘light weight’ distribution such as Slackware.  I was
> unaware that there were any differences in distributions from a hardware
> requirement standpoint.  Can anyone suggest a distribution for this
> purpose?

Well, this is not a problem of distros, but of requirement. Word processing 
implies to ways:
a) klyx/LaTeX,  small but not a "traditional" word processor.
b) abiword, staroffice, kword, "huge" for a 1 Gb.

Internet implies an uptodate browser, which implies one of these :
a ) mozilla, huge
b) galleon, which implies lots of gnome libs 
c) lynx, with no graphics...

And for email, well, pine is nice.


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MGA