* Craig Box <craig(a)dubculture.co.nz> [2004-05-23 11:47]:
Thanks Gavin, but I don't want Sylpheed, I want Evolution or possibly Thunderbird. I don't want dillo, I want a Mozilla. And I want OpenOffice.org. I want equivalent functionality to what I would expect on a common Windows machine.
Thunderbird, Mozilla, and OpenOffice will crawl on your machine under Windows just as much as they do under Linux.
I know if you want to run tiny distributions on tiny hardware you can. What I want is to run modern applications on older hardware. If modern applications aren't architected to support this, then that is the problem.
That is the problem indeed. Generally you will find that there is no such thing as "enough memory"; other than, though, older hardware should be able to keep up somewhat. Before I got my current 1.5 GHz Athlon system (XP 1800+), I used to run a PII-450 with 256MB RAM. Mozilla was sluggish -- Opera was fine though. OOo took a long time to load, but ran decently. Linux itself (Slackware) booted in about 55 seconds, while the Athlon brought this down to 40. The problem is really the apps (and possibly Xfree 4.x) much more so than the system. -- Regards, Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."