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

[John Lavin <jlavin@linuxtech.com>]

I agree - a good setup would be fvwm95 or fvwm2.  In addition, they
should be able to get away with gnumeric, abiword, xpdf, and a browser
called dillo (if phoenix doesn't run well on it).

Other than using blackbox instead of a fvwm window manager, I can still
squeeze some life out of my Pentium I, 16M ram notebook with that
software.  For those apps, that's all you need.  Your boxes could even
handle more than mine.

-john

LeRoy Cressy said:
> Debian works good for me when upgrading from windows to Linux.  I also 
> like fvwm2 or fvwm 95 because they use very little system resources.
> 
> On a system with only 64M ram I would not run any of the desktops that 
> use up system resources.  Also dosemu works great.  Also make a kernel 
> that uses the least amount of memory for these legacy systems.  Debian 
> has a great package for creating custom kernels called make-kpkg.  You 
> can compile the kernel on your workstation which creates a deb file with 
> all of the modules included.
> 
> W. Chris Shank wrote:
> > 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? 
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> 
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