Suse is owned by Novel/IBM now, so I'm a little nervous about Suse. Is that hale I see coming down on my, no, it a flame form everyone who loves Suse. Sam. Jim Streit wrote: >I have Suse 8.2 (used to be RedHat 7.3) installed on an older NEC Reday >330t laptop (266, 4 gb drive, 64mg ram, 10/100 pcmcia nic, cdrom, >touchpad). Both installs took a couple of hours to complete, but have >worked very well. > >I use KDE for the desktop and the KOffice applications (Kword, KSpread and >KPresenter). I quickly found that OpenOffice very, very slow to use on >the older hardware and removed it from the system. > >For the database I used MySQL. > >Slack would also work well on your older hardware. I had Slack 8.1 running >on a 200 mhz desktop with 64 megs of ram for school last year. > >I can't say anything about Debian or Gentoo, I haven't used those yet. > > > > >>I've seen several people looking for Open Source Projects to participate >> in so I'm posing this to both groups. >> >>Lets say I have a laptop (toshiba, compaq, what ever) configured as >>follows. Pentium 166mhz, 1.5 - 2 gig hard disk, 32 mb ram, 12 in >>display, 10 mbit nic, external mouse & trackpoint or touch pad, _no_ >>CDROM (well maybe a CDROM). >> >>I want to put Linux on it with X Windows, OpenOffice and MySQL (maybe >>PHP?). I want to have enough disk space for storing the database and >>documents. Remember this is for business. >> >>What distribution should I use, I want it to be easy, "free", and >>stable? >> >>Yes this has to do with the computer disposal business I'm getting >>started. I don't want to start with M$ because, well, I'm broke :-[ >> and then I would have to file chapter 13 after I bought it :-D >> >>I've only been a Cobol programmer (2 years), I've done a little (very >>little) PHP out of the book, a bunch of HTML, and a touch of >>JavaScript. I was trained as a structured (top down) programmer. This >>new fangled action-reaction stuff drives me a little buggy. >> >>The database would have very few tables and fields, I'm no dba so... >>Tables >> customers >> business names, contact names, addresses, phone numbers, other >>such information >> customer inventory >> CPU serial number, Display serial number, HD serial number, >>Asset Tag number. >> (not sure what else) >> >>1. Can I use the spread sheet within OpenOffice to create a data input >>and reporting system? >> I would also like to use Writer for certificates that get >>data from the database as well. >> >>2. Should I ask for help building a data input system that's open source >> and available on my website or your website "free"? >> (I like this idea but someone else is going to have to >>manage the project.) >> >>This would be something "small" businesses could use to inventory their >>computer stuff. It would be easy to install and maintain and would >>interface with OpenOffice without a hitch. It would be able to function >> on the M$ platform if needed without tweaking it. >> >>Anyone have any ideas or want to take this one on? >> >>Sam. >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list