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Posted by AZ Nomad on 02/28/06 19:51
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:43:23 GMT, Nicholas Andrade <SDNick484@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote:
>I agree that it's in the original posters best interest to consider
>upgrading to 2000 or XP (if they want to stay on the Windows side), but
The win98 file system API isn't going to let you address 4.7G files.
>this is a possible alternative. Win 2000 or XP will probably be
>particularly sluggish on a P3 500, so if the original poster is
>experimemntal I'd suggest giving Linux a shot. I run Fedora Core 2
>(kernel 2.6.10) on a P3-m 400 with 256MB of RAM. I use a lightweight
>window manager, Fluxbox, and it performs well enough; it's perfectly
>capable of office functions (I use OpenOffice.org 1.1) and internet
>browsing (I use Mozilla Suite 1.7.12). Although I don't have a
>dvd-burner in that laptop (it's an ultralight), software wise it would
>support it.
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