On Wednesday 04 May 2005 23:52, Rich wrote:
> Christian Einfeldt wrote:

> > I use Damn Small Linux (DSL) to install on older boxes, such as
> > PIs and PIIs.  DSL is fantastic, and I highly recommend.   The
> > browser is dillo.
>
> just beware that dillo might be unable to open a lot of pages.

Thanks for the reminder.  It's been okay for me so far, but I'm glad 
that dillo is there as a backup.

> there's firefox available, but it's slightly slower and takes
> more resources.

Yeah, that's why I generally use dillo whenever possible on DSL.

>
> > xmms for audio listening.
> > I forgot the name of the windowing system it uses.
>
> fluxbox

Thanks.

>
> > On more modern boxes, I give away Ubuntu or Xandros.  Xandros
> > IMHO is slightly more of a memory hog than Ubuntu.

I used Ubuntu extensively for the first time yesterday, and it was 
pretty good on a fairly old box.  OOo loaded pretty slow, 
unfortunately.  This box is a wobbler, meaning that it is a little 
too fast to waste DSL, and a little to slow for optimal performance 
with Ubuntu. 

> >
> > For myself, I use SuSE 9.2 for my legal work, and Linspire 5.0
> > for audio ripping and editing.  The audio editor there is
> > audacity.
>
> to be counted - slackware :)

oops, sorry, didn't get this.  How is slackware involved with 
Audacity?  I ask this question out of pure ignorance.  I tried to 
install Minislack once, and it wasn't pretty.  I hear lots of true 
geeks singing the praises of Slackware, so I have lots of respect 
for it, but it is out of my reach as a simple end user. 

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