Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:25, Nick Rout wrote:If you want something *really* fast use emacs (Experience Midle Age Computer Programming) and lynx. Emacs has also no problems with text files over 600Mb (e.g. my mbox) and you don't need that stupid mouse. When I program python I always use emacs and I can actually use it faster than kate or kwrite.
FVWM is perfect for this sort of set up. I used it for quite a long time until I discovered KDE. Version 1 worked quite well in 64Megs, btw.On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:16:02 +1300
Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a colleague who wants to put Linux on a laptop with 64Mb of RAM.
Is this enough for a normal distribution such as Ubuntu or Suse, running
Gnome or KDE, or will he need to look at one of the light-weight
distributions?
Both KDE and gnome are a little bloated for 64M RAM IMHO.
But the solution, again IMHO, is not really to do with the distro, more the
choice of desktop.
It's more the apps and WM rather than the distribution per se.
Write off bloatware like OOo etc.
AbiWord, TeX, LaTeX, and their frontends will do a better job anyway.
What does your colleague want to do with his antiquity?
-- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell.
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