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Re: [PLUG] Win98 End of Life -> Lin98?
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the question is- where can i get a distro that supports that?
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 13:46, John Lavin wrote:
> 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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