[plug] Recommended Distro for lo spec computer? [UNCLASSIFIED]

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:57:32 +0800, Mike Holland
<myk.list at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Clark Julian wrote:
> >
> > (not sure of the speed & ram etc, probably a P-166)
> > ... firefox and thunderbird.
> 
> Firefox on a  P166 ?? Thats a scary thought. She'll be able to read
> the text as it renders.  How about 'links' instead?

I found that ram was more the issue on my 233 laptop. When I only had
64M, gui's were useless. I added another 256M stick and now it runs
well with kde or gnome.


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Regards,
Russ