[plug] Old 486 advice

[Steve Grasso]

On Wednesday 17 October 2001 07:44, Craig Ringer wrote:
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> pix/formatting. Otherwise - ideas, anybody ? Does AbiWord support msword
> .doc files?

Not really. 0.7 reads Word/Office97 docs pretty well, the fonts are a bit 
sucky and you can't save as a Word doc.

> I'd suggest debian. It'll be a learning experience (read - brick wall at
> first) but its the most compact "full featured" distro around. I can fit
> a debian install into a lean 100mb and still have a pretty full featured

Yup. I'd be loading Debian

> system (sans x) where I have trouble getting redhat/mandrake to install
> in <450mb

You're not trying  ;-P

Regards,
Steve