VERY old laptop, looking for linux

Impotence

Impotence

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Ok, My Gran bought a Laptop at a car boot sale for £10 its has:

- 35 Mhz processor
- 12 Mb of ram
- floppy drive (no cd drive)

Slightly embarasing spec!

All she wants to be able to do is word processing, im looking for a version of linux that will run on this machine (ie run well) and will open office run on this machine?
 
As far as i know, no linux will run on that old hardware, unless the X windows system is disabled, which leaves you with a DOS like interface.
As for OpenOffice, definately wont run!
 
pelvis_3 said:
As far as i know, no linux will run on that old hardware, unless the X windows system is disabled, which leaves you with a DOS like interface.
As for OpenOffice, definately wont run!
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You can run Linux on it with a light Window manager like TWM or WM, but I don't know of any modern word processor on any operating system that will run in 12mb RAM. :( Sorry.
 
Come to think of it, I'm not really seeing much of an advantage over a plain old word processing machine (I only saw one once, my friend had one).
 
I didnt think to ask the size of the hard disc, but MB is a good guess :)

My gran only wants for word processing as thats all she does on the computer (shes 60 years old, do u reall think she wants to play games?!?!)

Anyone got any suggestions on a word processor, al it really needs is to be able to open/save .doc files (MS word) as thats the format she currently using.
 
publicenemyno968 said:
I didnt think to ask the size of the hard disc, but MB is a good guess :)

My gran only wants for word processing as thats all she does on the computer (shes 60 years old, do u reall think she wants to play games?!?!)

Anyone got any suggestions on a word processor, al it really needs is to be able to open/save .doc files (MS word) as thats the format she currently using.
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I would suggest OpenOffice.org or ABIword, but both of those programs, although their requirements are much less than MS Office, are *much* too heavy for a system with 12mb RAM. Unless you are an advanced Linux user, which I suspect you are not, that laptop is pretty worthless to you and to your grandma. Sorry. If it had a bit more RAM you could use a more modern distro with a more modern installer and UI, but 12 MB of RAM isn't even enough for most firewall distros.
 
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