Re: Which OS?

[harikeo]

Pete wrote:
> I'm just reinstalling a fairly basic (by modern standards!) PC for a youth 
> charity to use.  It will mainly be used for Word/Excel and a bit of web 
> browsing via 56k dial up.
>
> It is a 333MHz Cyrix M II CPU , 75MHz bus, 10GB HDD.  Currently it has only 
> 64MB of RAM, but I'm fairly sure I can increase that once I've had a dig 
> around in my cupboard for some spare sticks :o)
>
> Assuming I increase the amount of RAM (lets say to around 256MB), which OS 
> would people recommend I install?  I've got versions of Windows 95, 98SE, 
> ME, 2000 and XP.
>
> (Windows has been requested over Linux as it'll be used mostly by kids so 
> they want the s/w to be familiar.)
>
> TiA,
>
> Pete

I'd install 2000 on it along with all patches and tie down a desktop for 
anyone to use.

n.b. I have Windows 2003 Server running on a Cyrix 333Mhz and although 
it's slow to boot it's surprisingly okay as a file server for my LAN :)