| John Lavin on Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:48:21 -0400 |
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Arthur S. Alexion said: > I have a really old laptop that I want to experiment with. It is an I have a Toshiba Pentium 133 with 16 meg RAM. I run Debian Woody and Blackbox for X. Any lightweight X wm should work for you. I stick to mostly text based apps for doing things (mutt, BitchX, w3m) but I do have a couple gui necessities for word processing/pdfs/etc (xpdf, abiword, gnumeric work well). Viewing images, I use feh. It'll view any image that I've pulled down so far, but I'm sure there are other lightweight viewers out there. dselect swaps like crazy if you are going to use Debian, try using apt-get/apt-cache as much as possible. Kernel recompiles take a while too. I usually kick them off and do something else or compile it on another debian box, package it up and install it on the laptop. Its worth the time to recompile, though, to remove all the extra junk you aren't using. Speeds things up on a less powerfull box... Never got my soundcard to work: pesky OPL-SA3 drivers weren't cooperating and I moved on to more important (read: more interesting) things. Stay away from kde/gnome, gimp, mozilla - you'll be swapping till the cows come home. Enjoy, -john -- John Lavin jlavin@ccil.org Public Key: http://mercury.ccil.org/~jlavin/lavin-public-key.gpg ______________________________________________________________________ Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips." http://i-want-a-website.com/about-linux Attachment:
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