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On Monday 01 December 2003 22:45, Tim Wright wrote:
> computer is an Acer Aspire with an AMD i586 or i686 processor (K6?), 32Meg
> of RAM and a single expansion slot used by a winmodem.
> What is a good "lightweight" distribution for a cheapie machine like this?
> All it really needs to do is run KMail, a web browser, Pixie, and some
> simple multimedia apps.
Debian might pull this off. Although you might need another 32Mb of RAM for
your X apps... Try IceWM or for real fun, lwm [1].
'simple multimedia' ??? is there such a thing? ;)
[1] http://freshmeat.net/projects/icewm/?topic_id=56
http://freshmeat.net/projects/lwm/?topic_id=56
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