Linux Made Easy: Linspire 5.0

[Karl Hergenrother]

David Ecklein wrote:

>You are also right that I am primarily intrigued that some variety of Linux
>that will rescue these older machines (perhaps for school systems,
>hard-pressed inner-city community centers, first-time users trying to live
>on Walmart-or-below wages etc.).  Linux to me means low cost (asymptotically
>approaching zero as a limit in fact).  High reliability on a wide variety of
>hardware and ease of use and deployment are also important, of course.
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This may be common knowledge to most, but I was unable to load Fedora 
Core 1 onto a Pentium II 200 when the software announced that the 
processor was not up to the task.  This same computer has been running 
Win2k for 4 years doing normal office and Internet tasks.


Karl

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