[ILUG] Windows 98 Replacement?

[Paul Biggar]

> Can anyone recommend any suitable software which could replace Outlook,
> Internet Explorer, Word and of course Win98?  A distro designed for such a
> purpose would be even better - as I don't want to have to download extra
> stuff over the internet there (Ireland is bad enough, can't quite imagine how
> internet would be in Indonesia...).

I was playing with Beatrix, which is designed for just such a purpose.
It got good reviews on osnews and slashdot. Its a minimal ubuntu based
distro which comes as a live CD, but can be installed onto a hard
disk. Its got gaim, firefox, openoffice and evolution, and runs gnome
folded into the kernel so its very fast. It doesnt come with anything
linux though, so no vim/emacs for example, but its come with apt (is
debian based) so tis easy enough to add anything.

http://www.watsky.net for download.

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Paul Biggar
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