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.
>
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>>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.
>>
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