Summary: Hi folks, I'm now building BLFS 6.1 and searching for a light-weight word processing package which can read and edit M$ .doc documents. OOo will be t...
Summary: i am looking to install a light weight linux distro on my old tower. hoping to use it as a file or web or ftp or ssh or etc server. it is an old del...
Summary: Centrino is a technology standard using certain Intel-branded components. Back in the day, one would have called this marketing hype over a new packa...
Summary: Thanks, Mik, yes, by using pthread_create, i can't get a pid, but only a thread ID, but what i meant is on linux, when a thread gets created, there ...
Summary: "best and most user-friendly Linux" What are you going to do with the systems? Not all people can replace xp. Do you have linux applications or do you...
Summary: Both slackware and debian should be able to run on those specs. You can trim down the package selection to get it to fit onto your hard drive. Don't e...
Summary: This type of question attracts more responses on this forum that any other questions. So I'll chip mine in. Suse is a good distribution, so are all...
Summary: A friend of mine has had pretty good success managing to play his old dos games using dosemu but I think your best bet would be to dual boot....
Summary: I have Linux on a laptop of that spec, but with a 200mb harddisk. You can forget about KDE right away, and although it would run, I wouldn't use any G...
Summary: This is probably not what you want to hear but basically you could use any distro, it's mainly down to personal preference. There are some like mandr...
Summary: There's an all-in-one solution for time syncing called ntpd. It's part of the ntp suite, a rather large collection of various progs dealing with time ...
Summary: I would go with Charles on this. Use Mandrake and if you are just doing word processing, stick in X ...like KDE which comes with almost all distros. I...
Summary: Hi all! Following a completely unsatisfactory experience with Windows Genuine 'Advantage' (sic) identifying my legitimate copy of XP as a pirate after...
Summary: The requirement for swap space depends on what your system is going to be used for. For servers which are constantly under enormous load, memory will ...
Summary: Can anyone help me find a free anti virus program to download. I have a imb 386 and I don't want to spend to muh money on this machine, it's mainly fo...
Summary: I'm in the same boat as peter4u. On the job I gotta run Dreamweaver, MS Access, Quark, Photoshop, etc. I can do some word processing in Openoffice and...
Summary: I know that this message is a little out of place in this forum and I apologize. I couldn't think of anywhere else to try to find an answer. I have be...
Summary: What's your hardware? I am using RedHat 7.3 on a K6-II 500 CPU, 512MB RAM, and it's a pig using KDE or Gnome. Konqueror as a file manager takes abou...
Summary: Hi folks, LFS LiveCD 6.1 Is there any way to "READ" OpenOffice .doc document? I'm running LFS LiveCD to build LFS. The former runs Xfce as destop wit...
Summary: I don't know exactly what your going to be using this box for but I will make some assumptions. Lets assume your using the box for total desktop use....
Summary: That's kind of an odd question since there are so many programs out there that are available for Linux!!! It depends on what you want to do . You ca...
Summary: That's only true if you use KDE or gnome. Use a light weight window manager. You don't get the nifty features but you don't get the weight as well. ...
Summary: "If Linux is ever going to make it out of the very small world of pro, er, excuse me, Open Source Developers, the people who do all the development ha...
Summary: The only difference is whats installed. Server loads server services to "serve out" apps, data, web sites, email, etc. A client just has the apps to l...
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