[CS-FSLUG] OT: (Long) Help with Shepherd's Staff -- OnTopic: Moving to Open Source

[sjm]

> Machines are P3, 2.8 GHz, with 500 MB RAM....slow with Anti-virus and in my
> view perfect for a version of Ubuntu CE or other Open Source OS.

Be careful touting slowness with Windows.  Those machines (only 512MB
RAM) might not do real well with the latest Ubuntu either.  There are
lighter distros, but you need to test them first.

sjm (who just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a 1.8GHz 512 MB machine)