Thursday, March 30, 2000, 12:23:39 PM, you wrote:
KM> Hi out there!
KM> On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Home.se wrote:
>>I have an IBM Thinkpad 360c
>>340M hd 16M ram and a 33Mhz 486, is it a good option to run linux on
>>it ? I�m an GUI addict so a gui of some kind is a must.
KM> I think it's a better option than try running Win95/98/2000.
KM> About GUI, of course you can have it. It depends on your RAM wich one
KM> would work well. In your case I would use X with fvwm2. kde needs a lot of
KM> RAM to run smooth. What do you expect, if a GUI has to look and behave
KM> (i.e. be that "comfortable" whatever this means) like MS-Windows it will
KM> have similar resource requirements ;.).
KM> About your disk space. With 340MB you will have to take a closer look what
KM> software packets to install. With most of the distributions you will have
KM> to browse the packets list and select(/deselect) manually what to install.
KM> And last but not least, your RAM is not much (for todays standards) so
KM> use enough virtual memory (64MB swap should be OK I think).
Ok, thanks for the answares. They were a lot as i expected :) So far i have
no problems selecting the packages to install but my main problem is
that i don�t like fvwm2 very much, just for one thing, the scrollbars
suck, to be modest. Is there any other good, minimum requiering,
windowmanager to use instead of it ?
The reason i ask is because it has win 95 installed and it runs ok,
not smooth but ok, and without a CD-player i can�t reinstall win on
the machine so i have to be sure that Linux is the best option in this case
before i start to experiment on how to set it up.
/einar
