[H-GEN] HEADS UP: Debian for Kids

[Sandra Milne]

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At 01:04  26/07/01 +1000, you wrote:
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> > If necessary I would investigate GEOS...I think it was a HP product and 
> from
> > what I saw it looked quite reasonable...it was a windowing system that sat
> > on top of DOS and ran quite nicely on 486 with 8 mb....should not be too
> > hard to find legal copies of DOS 6 in the bottom of most corporate drawers.
> >
>As I recall the windoze3.0-avoidance strategy of the day was DRDOS or
>PCDOS plus GEOS which most definitely ran on 486s and even 386s with 8mb
>and small HDDs.

corel has a free version of dos i believe. and then there's the freedos 
project i came across last year. however i haven't managed to find a free 
version of a windows tool... well apart from what comes with linux. oh and 
if u want to run X-Windows with low ram, a flatmate of mine used to run 
xfce on our gateway (which only had 16meg ram at the time) and he swears by it.

Sandra.

silne at bit.net.au
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