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| Thread ID: 83973 | 2007-10-19 21:55:00 | Refurbishing computers - Linux | music_man (5482) | PC World Chat |
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| 603100 | 2007-10-21 03:30:00 | IF you do go ahead, beware that any computer that can't run XP probably won't run any modern linux distro with a GUI (even using XFCE) | Greven (91) | ||
| 603101 | 2007-10-21 10:24:00 | IF you do go ahead, beware that any computer that can't run XP probably won't run any modern linux distro with a GUI (even using XFCE) Probably. What I was planning was NetBSD/FreeBSD with Fluxbox, Opera, AbiWord, Skype, Gimp and mplayer, and a few other bits and pieces such as xpdf. It all works OK on a 600MHz, 128Mb, 20Gb machine. These retail for no more than $50. In many cases these can be had for free. |
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| 603102 | 2007-10-21 19:53:00 | For the computers that can't support Ubuntu, I was thinking of installing PuppyLinux. | music_man (5482) | ||
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