Re: Using Linux on a Family PC

From: Hendrik Boom (hendrik_at_pooq.com)
Date: 07/07/04

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    On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:21:43PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote:
    > Jacob S. wrote:
    > >
    > >Unfortunately, even OOo is going to be slow for them. Upgrade the ram to
    > >at least 256MB, if you can.
    >
    > I'd like to, but I doubt my budget allows me to.
    > But I'll ask them whether they're willing to pay for more speed.
    >

    If you want it small, try abiword. I run it on my 48megabyte 100MHz
    Pentium 100. Performance is adequate. Window manager is icewm.

    >
    > What I was referring to was preventing them from deleting THEIR OWN
    > important files. My step-dad almost killed the windows '98 PC by
    > randomly using drag & drop in windows explorer.
    >
    > I thougt of some kind of cron job that backups their important files to
    > the second HD or something like that. Any ideas?

    you might use CVS or subversion . . . None of them are, as far as I know,
    designed as backup programs, but they might do the job in an interesting manner.

    -- hendrik 

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