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Re: Apps for low resource laptop
de Ben 05/09/2006 09:52
Mark Warner wrote:
> I will be (re)configuring a PI-150MHz/32MB laptop for use on the road.
> This will only be used occasionally for Internet access and email, and
> for very basic word processing and spreadsheets. The user isn't
> clueless, but he's not all that security conscious, either.
Slightly OT, but do you think the user could be educated on how to use
DamnSmallLinux? I'm not normally a vocal Linux advocate but when it
comes to hardware like this, the difference between using Windows (even
a stripped down version) and a Linux distro designed to run well on
older hardware is very noticeable.
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
Ben