| Stephen Gran on 17 Dec 2003 11:50:03 -0500 |
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:44:26AM -0500, W. Chris Shank said: > I've got many clients still using Windows 98 - either because they > really don't need any more or they have some legacy application that > won't run on newer windows (DOS apps). > > Seems to me this could be a good opportunity to get Linux converts if > there were a linux distro specifically tailored to machines currently > running Win98 (ie: lowerend P2 and up, 64M ram, etc). Their needs are > generally minimal: internet, email, office, and maybe a special DOS > application or two. If this distro included a working/easy DOS layer, I > could get several clients to switch right away. > > Does anyone know of a distro focused on this type of user? > > What windows manager would be pretty good - I heard that XFCE is a > rather lightweight desktop? > > Are there any distros specifically focused on Xfce? > > Does anyone have a similar need for their clients? Would you be > interested in a distro that did this? I don't know of any ditros, specifically - genereally, there are either distros that focus on the higher end machines with the newest X and KDE and so on, or there are distros that focus on low-end firewall appliance-type boxes. That being said, a minimal set-up with something like icewm (really lightweight, and looks roughly akin to win98) and DOSEmu should do most of it for them. I haven't looked at DOSEmu in a while, though - several years ago it didn't work that well for many things, but I have heard that it's better now. Caveat user. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Democracy is a device that insures we | | steve@lobefin.net | shall be governed no better than we | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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