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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. |
Does your daughter still use the machine? Which WP and SS? AbiWord and Gnumeric? I like her attitude, and it sounds like what she got was an appropriate solution for for her.
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Just another "small" Linux to consider.
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I'm aware of wattOS, but haven't tried it. I note they have a microWATT flavor for even lower end hardware. Among other things, it replaces Chromium as the browser with
Qupzilla. Qupzilla is one of an assortment of browsers based on the Webkit backend and Qt framework. I have it here and am impressed. (The Puppy Linux folks are looking at it too. Puppy has historically bundled a a version of Seamonkey 1.x. That's increasingly dated and doesn't handle a lot of current stuff. SeaMonkey 2 does, but is too big. Qupzilla meets Puppy's "First, it must be small" criteria while being standards compliant.)
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Dennis