[aclug-L] Re: Corel's Office Suite will it work?

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW, I've seen WP8 for Linux run on a 50Mhz 486 very usably.  :-)

I think that was under Slackware... a former coworker (who I believe is on
this list, and may pipe up if he feels something should be added) had it
running on his 486 laptop at work, easily outperforming MS Office 97(?) on
the P120's we had at the time running Win95.

But that's really unrelated to the topic at hand, I believe... so disregard
this post as you deem appropriate :-)


On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 11:41:21PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> I suspect that it will work, albeit rather (perhaps intolerably?)
> slowly.  If you have prior Linux experience, you might want to look at
> a distribution that can be better tweaked for old machines, such as
> Debian or Slackware.
> 
> James <pantherace13@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > My mom got a new laptop for cheap, and I thought it could run Corel's
> > Office Suite. I went to CompUSA and found it said it required a 166+ MHz
> > processor. The computer she got only has a 120MHz processor. I was
> > wondering if it will work (all other requirements are met), but just run
> > slower, or if it will not work at all. If it does then I can finally get
> > her to use Linux, right now she uses Winblows 95, so please say someone
> > found/knows a way to make it work.
> > 
> > James
> > 
> > 
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