[leglug-users] Running Linux on old PCs

[Mohammed Shublaq]

what about LTSP??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ltsp
http://www.ltsp.org/

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On Fri, August 3, 2007 2:22 pm, Abdallah Deeb wrote:
> Hello Imad,
>
> Glad you found my email :)
> I'm forwarding your email to the Lebanese Linux Users Group to get
> their opinion on the matter. This way you'll have more hands working
> on your solution.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> On 8/3/07, Imad Sleiman <sleimani at un.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Mr. Deeb,
>>
>> It was nice meeting you, and I hope I will have the chance to meet  with
>> you
>> soon. As I explained to you on the phone, ESCWA has some old PCs
>> (PT-III,
>> 128 MB RAM, 6GB to 20 GB HDD) it wants to distribute for the purpose of
>> community development in rural areas of Lebanon. The PCs will have
>> open-source software installed. However, most of the popular Linux OS
>> require a minimum of 256 MB RAM such as UBUNTU and SUSE. I have found
>> one OS
>> that runs confortably on ESCWA's old systems and is called Puppy Linux.
>> I
>> have made some preliminary tests and appeared suitable for most general
>> purpose applications. However, I was not able to run Arabic.
>>
>> Could you direct me to Linux versions that run on older systems and have
>> Arabic interfaces or are Arabic enabled?
>>
>> I would appreciate hearing from you soon.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Imad Sleiman
>
>
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> Abdallah Deeb
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