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Harry escribió:
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<pre wrap="">Denis Brown wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Well done to Chris and MattV.
Couple of comments in a constructive spirit, if I may...
1. In the "Why should I Move?" section's "compatibility" subsection I
would be cautious about saying that Linux "runs on anything ..[even
the].. old ones that you were going to throw away." While few people
these days would have 386 machines running Win9x with 64MB RAM, the
experience of moving from that configuration - which does function with
acceptable speed - to the same hardware running anything other than
Computer Angels' distro is likely to lead to disappointment.
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I'd suggest that any modern Linux using a GUI will struggle on a 386.
For Computer Angels we set a minimum of PII 400MHz with 64MB RAM and
expect OpenOffice.org to be responsive once it is running but slow to load.
We build systems with 128MB RAM as standard and they are generally a
minimum 600MHz PIII these days.
Pehaps the "old ones that you were going to throw away." means a much
higher spec than the ones that a PLUGer might (reluctantly) throw away ;-)
Harry
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I still have my 386 happily running debian 2.1 :-)<br>
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By the way, if a NGO needs computers, at Murdoch university there are
some 15-20 monitors and about 8-10 computers running at 800MHz (about
256MB RAM, 10GB HD) to be discarded.<br>
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Please drop me a letter requesting the donation directed to IT
Services, Murdoch University, and I can take it to the appropriate
person (include some branding/signatures!). Think about the transport
before requesting them! And they won't be there for long!!<br>
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See you!<br>
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Marcos Carot<br>
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