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Old 05-09-2014, 01:36 AM   #188
Gregg Bell
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Originally Posted by cromag View Post
Four or five years ago I took my daughter to the Trenton Computer Festival. (it's just a shadow of it's former self, thanks largely to the internet, I suspect.) She wanted to use her own money to buy her own computer.

We found an ancient Compaq Pressario laptop -- I believe it dated from 1999 or 2000. It had a 6 GB hard drive. The dealer plugged it in to show that it worked. I can't remember the price -- it was cheap. (I gave her a new battery for it -- cost more than the computer.)

Anyway, we found a distro called wattOS. It's a very lightweight Linux and was very, very usable on that ancient PC. She had a word processor and spreadsheet for school and, with a $5 USB wi-fi dongle, she was on Facebook.

Just another "small" Linux to consider.
No one will be able to top this, cromag!
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