On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:11:18 -0600
"Praedor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What window manager do you use? Perhaps it would be instructive for Orkunt
> for someone with anemic hardware 8\ to explain how they get a fully workable
> system...unless your system is CLI-only. I doubt that would be much
> encouragement or favorably demonstrative.
anemic hardware, that would be me. I use a pentium 100 with 32mb and a 2mb bigfoot hd.
x starts up in 11 secs, I use icewm, it is the smalest wm that is still usable. If
you've got a mouse
with 3 buttons you can also use lwm. As a mailer i use sylpheed, browsing with
netscape, w3m and lynx.
booting takes me eeh, four weeks or so? I don't know, I don't see the point of
rebooting unless you
compile the kernel (and that you only do once anyway, right, it's not as if you add
any hardware to a little
box like this)
plovs@debian:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 938M 291M 600M 33% /
/dev/hda3 46M 1.4M 42M 4% /boot
/dev/hda4 905M 20M 839M 3% /home
plenty of space also
plovs@debian:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 29852 28204 1648 16436 676 12820
-/+ buffers/cache: 14708 15144
Swap: 96732 1484 95248
plenty of space also
but as you can see I use debian on this box (I'm on this list because I use mandrake
as a server), but it should make any difference, just don't use gnome or kde and turn
off stuff you don't need.
Usually I use a box that's a bit bigger, it's just being repaired. Bigger is better
but linux is usable as ong as
you know what you are doing. I have to agree btw that windows runs faster on a small
box like this (w95osr2f32) unfortunately it usually runs only a day or so before you
have to reboot (if you're lucky)
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