[Pc_Support] For those still using Win98 / WinME

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 09:37 -0400, Austin Denyer wrote:
> Looks like a good time to take all those remaining Windoze boxes that
> are too low-spec to run XP and migrate to Linux.  

Only one caveat is that with modern Linux, you need to be at least i686
generation ISA, or largely i686 with just a few instructions missing.
But that was the norm even back in 1996-1997 (AMD K6, Pentium II,
etc...).

Otherwise, agreed.  And I totally love XFCE for this purpose on systems.
It runs on 200+MHz and 64+MB machines quite well.

Unlike most other "favorites" outside of GNOME/KDE people like to list,
XFCE is a _full_ environment, not just a "window manager" (that's only
xfwm in XFCE).  At the same time, unlike GNOME/KDE, XFCE _only_ launches
what is needed -- e.g., the file manager (xffm) does _not_ launch unless
it's being used (whereas Nautilus is constantly used in GNOME, and
Konqueror in KDE).

And that's includes XFCE's integration with and ability to selectively
launch various GNOME support as needed.


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