advice for ubuntu on a small machine

[jdd]

Kjetil Halvorsen a écrit :
> I am considering installing ubuntu or something like that on some old, small
> machines.

please, be more precise. What processor, What Hard drive.

> What other good options are there, to maintain some compatibility with
> gnome programs? We need absolutely GNU emacs with auctex for
> tex/latex stuff, and abiword or even openoffice would be nice. Also firefox.

any linux programm can work on any linux install. The dependecies are
automatically fixed, at the expense of some disk space.

Nowaday, 256 Mo ram, 10 Gb (may be more is you need many LaTeX fonts)
Hard Drive, a PIII processor are a bare minimum, but you can think of
using one big machine and thin clients

jdd


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