Ben,
Should work fine! my craptops are about 1/2 that (P-120 w/24 megs), and they
are pretty slow by todays standards. I have actually run enlightenment on one
once (took about 5 minutes to load up...). When running linux or bsd, I use
blackbox/fluxbox most of the time, I also use icewm (looks a lot like
windows95), FVWM, FVWM-95, TWM (yuck!), and even windowmaker. I dont use
windowmaker much, as its a bit more resouce hungry than the others.
Ive run KDE and Gnome on p-200 w/64 megs, it works ok, but is a little slow.
I think Fluxbox will run pretty well for you, so will icewm, fvwm and Id
suggest trying windowmaker, kde 2 (3 may be a bit slow, although you can set
kde to run on low (relatively) resources.
Linux can be ideal on low end boxes, it depends a lot on what you need to do
mostly. If you dont need a gui, but need system security, then linux/bsd are
the only real choices. If you need a box that will work as a workstation and
a server, then linux/bsd is really your only choice. If your system doesn
meet the supported microsoft product, then linux/bsd is your only answer...
If you have a mixed hardware environment (such as mac, pc, sun, ...) and all
the computers must run the same OS, then linux is probaby your only answer.
Jamie
On Thursday 13 February 2003 06:46 am, Ben Huot wrote:
: I was wondering if any of you think I would have enough memory to run
: LyX with a lightweight windows manager like fluxbox on a Pentium 200
: with 48 MB RAM - it is maxed out in memory. This is the main program I
: want to use on Linux that I can't use on Windows. If this works I can
: tell people that Linux will work on low end PCs.
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