[plug] Grannies Computer

[John Knight]

I'll second Harry there, I was running RH 7.3 on a mate's 133 with 32 meg of 
RAM without too much difficulty, it's not so much the distro that you use, 
it's about turning off extraneous services (I don't think she'll be running 
an Apache webserver any time soon) and using a light window manager. I find 
fluxbox quite good, but if ol' granny's gonna havea  hard time of it, maybe 
something like fvwm95 or qvwm would be better for her, as they resemble the 
windoze 95 look she'd be accustomed to. You can still use GNOME and KDE apps 
through another window manager, so you'll have no problems there.

Make lunch, not war.





>Hi Tim
>
>We use 32M on the Computer Angels distro without difficulty. Stick with 
>that for now. You can always upgrade underneath the hard disk if it proves 
>necessary.
>I wrote a long screed about the Computer Angels experience late last night 
>but didn't send it. I'll tweak that response and send it later tonight 
>hopefully.
>
>All the best
>Harry
>
>--
>linux.conf.au 2003		The Australian Linux Technical Conference
>http://linux.conf.au/		22-25 January 2003 in Perth, Western Australia
>
>Are you a computer angel?	http://www.ca.asn.au/


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