More mileage from an ancient machine

[Matthew Flaschen]

NoOp wrote:
> Don't even bother attempting to install Ubuntu, Xubuntu, etc., on the
> machine. Your best best is to buy an old copy of Win95 and MSOffice97
> and run that. You can experiment with Knoppix & DSL, but if you really
> want to maintain a useful machine (albeit with a poor OS) that can
> reasonably run an office suite stick to Win95/MSO97 on the machine.
> Don't even try Win2K or Win2KP. Sorry, but IMO that is your best bet.

Are you really saying there aren't distros less resource-hungry than
Win2K+MSOffice.  I find that highly unlikely.  If nothing else you can
use Fluxbuntu with AbiWord and probably get better performance than Win2K.

Matt Flaschen