W. Chris Shank on 17 Dec 2003 12:22:02 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Win98 End of Life -> Lin98?


I wonder if abiword and gnumeric would be good enough? They could run on
a fxce desktop since it uses gtk+, right?

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 11:56, Alex Birch wrote:
> Stephen Gran wrote:
> 
> >
> >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.
> >
> >  
> >
> I know that there's a FVWM windows 95 look alike... You can install this 
> with a Debian system. fvwm95 I believe. The office apps will be 
> difficult because OpenOffice.org is a memory hog.
> 
> Alex
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