[Sussex] Compaq Desktop for Sale

[Steve Williams]

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 15:02, Mike Diack wrote:
> Hi Steve.
> Like I say, it's not yet definite, but I'd love to give my folks a hand
> this way - they only basically web surf, email and write docs/spreadsheets.
>
> I've got all of the OS's I need.
> I'd probably look to Mandrakise and put Win 2K or maybe XP on it (as a dual
> boot, with Linux as the default so that it actually takes effort on their
> part to go back
> to an insecure OS if they need it for some obscure back compatibility
> issue!)

How about I:

emerge Xorg Kde Koffice

or:

emerge Xorg Gnome evolution openoffice-bin

Which do you fancy - I have all these on my server so it's no problem to 
install. I could even do you a nice bootsplash start up etc. etc. and a 2.6.6 
kernel.

Currently I have /boot /  and swp on hda (20Gb) and /home on hdb (10Gb). It 
would not be a problem to install Winders on the 10Gb Drive and leave the 
boot stuff to grub.

Steve.

>
> I am keen to push my folks to Linux, but we'll have to see how it goes.....
> Eventually maybe that Microsoft option might disappear overnight from the
> boot menu .... ;)
>
> But for them, anything is an improvement over the current system, a Cyrix
> 6x86MMX PR300, 64MB RAM (can't upgrade usefully, since it's a 430 VX board
> and thus can't cache more than 64MB RAM!) with an 8GB drive, currently
> running Win98SE dual booting Win2K SP4.
>
> This'll make you laugh though (it bloody made me weep!) ....... Because the
> system is so under powered.... Installing Win 2000 took 4 (I kid you not!)
> hours(!) and that was before I'd applied any service packs, IE/OE updates,
> critical updates, direct x updates
> etc......................................
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