On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:14:34 +0000, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 02/20/2005 07:05:18 AM, Sasa Stupar wrote: > > I recommend 512 MB of ram. > I'm doing just fine with 256 but there have been times when I know I > would benefit from more. > > As far as CPU goes - it depends, if you want to use OpenOffice.org than > I personally suggest 2 GHz cpu - they aren't that expensive now. > Otherwise, you can probably get away with less - but OO.o can be > frustratingly slow at startup on 1GHz and lower CPU's. At least for me > (that's one of the reasons I actually ditched it for AbiWord/Gnumeric - > even though now I have a machine it is usable on) > > -- > Michael A. Peters > http://mpeters.us/ > Personally I would sooo happy with 256MB of mem right now. My home laptop has only 128MB and I never, ever, ever use OpenOffice if I can help it. It takes like two minutes to load. Too many people early on, over-sold linux for working on old low end hw. I know better. Personally, I use Abiword and Gnumeric for all my home use. I would kill for the criawips application to gain traction (GTK2 Presentation tool) but that is NOT going to happen.
