Re: [Staffslug] A question...at last :-)

On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 11:29 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote: [snip] Debian would be fine - until this spring my mother had been running Debian on a Toshiba notebook with 32MB RAM as her only desktop machine for the past four years. I've run Debian desktops with less memory in the past - their usefulness depends upon what apps you actually _need_ to run. Perhaps the question should be - what do you want to use the computer for? - I suspect Debian will still be in the answer somewhere though, it usually has been for me for the past decade ;-) - Richard, btw have you looked on e-bay for the RAM? -- Richard Smedley, RichardS(a)bvsc.org Free Software Evangelist, Midland Open Source Technology. http://www.most.org.uk/ ``Software Freedom for the Voluntary Sector''