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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] low spec hardware
  • Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 01:15:00 -0800

Quoting Treeve Jelbert <treeve01 AT pi.be>:
> I have an old notebook (P-133, 32 MB, 850MB disk) which I thought had a
> dead
>
> screen, but it has just revived after a long period of disuse.
>
> At the moment it has some win95 stuff, but needs updating.
>
> Could I usefully install Linux on it instead, and if so, which applications
> (e.g. browser, email, word processor / spread sheet?

At work I have an SMGL P-133, 32MB RAM running as a SaMBa/LDAP authentication
and file server for a few other Linux machines, and it seems to work fine.
I've
used blackbox on it, but stay away from any mozilla-based web browsers on
there
because they use a lot of memory and CPU.

-sandalle

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