[Gllug] Newbie needs help!

[Chanka A. Perera]

hi,
it'll  be very painful on  this configuration if u run  X but try with
slackware or debian woody with fluxbox  or icewm
but  if you can increase RAM a bit it'll be really make your life easy..

regards,

chanka perera


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:40:14 +0100, Andy McCall
<andy.mccall at aqualona.com> wrote:
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> Please treat me kindly, my names Andy McCall (42 living in London, married
> with 2 kids, thumbnail sketch over;-)  ),  and I am a complete newbie to
> Linux, but it seems that it may be the answer to my prayers. 
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> Digging around in my loft I found an old Compaq LTE Lite 4/25E (486) mono
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> My question is this, is there a distro available that will work with what
> I've got giving me access to WP and Spreadsheets? 
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> All answers gratefully received 
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