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Silly question
Silly question
Posted Feb 25, 2006 0:01 UTC (Sat) by dlang (subscriber, #313)In reply to: Silly question by foo-bar
Parent article: Linux distros for older hardware (Linux.com)
if you are only needing one machine it very well may be, but if you are trying to support many machines (think non-profit orginization) the cost of buying all the new machines needed can be very high (plus, the non-profit has much better things to do with the money)
in addition, even if a new machine can paper over the problem, that's still resources that aren't available for other things. I for one useually have several things going on in the background and it would be nice to speed them up by having things like browsers eat fewer resources.
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Silly question
Posted Feb 25, 2006 1:32 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
For replacing aging windows 2000 or 98 installs I've found that IceWM works out nicely. It provides a nice familar interface for non-technical users, you can stick little icons on the taskbar for needed applications using the icepref configuration program.
XFE is a close clone to the Microsoft Explorer thing.. it's based off of the X Wincommander, which seems dead now.
The only very confusing thing is probably the virtual desktops. It'll make windows 'disapear', so that will take some getting used to or have that disabled or whatnot.
Silly question
Posted Feb 25, 2006 9:30 UTC (Sat) by danieldk (subscriber, #27876) [Link]
fvwm95 comes even closer :), and is extremely light. I used a P100 with 64MB RAM and fvwm95 on Slack as an extra X terminal for a while. Worked very well!