[plug] [link] Linus and the fire-hose

[Leon Brooks]

On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:05 am, Harry McNally wrote:
> A single, lightweight install (even on powerful donated
> machines) means common training and simpler interface for our novice
> users. The only addition thus far has been OpenOffice.org on systems
> with >=128MB memory.

I have customers running OOo in 64MB under KDE. It's not quick, but it works. 
Linux swaps a lot of stuff out during the first few minutes' use, and after 
that it's OK for most stuff.

Cheers; Leon