I used to recommend blackbox / fluxbox for light setups, but I have to say "XFCE 4" (version 4 mind you, not earlier ones) rocks. It's got all the features I love without the bloat. I like it so much I've ditched KDE for it on my good (athlon 2600+) machine, ever since I heard about it on this list :) Well worth a look. My 2c...
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
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.
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.
Thanks for the recommendations, I'll pass them on.
He's found a cheap source of RAM, and is fitting it with another 64Mb for USD33, so the memory problem is going away. We also found the magic incantation to get it to boot from CD-ROM (hold down the C key during start-up). He's already had a crack with Mdk10, and is going to play with Suse and Knoppix, now that we've burnt them to CD.
What does your colleague want to do with his antiquity?
He just wants to revive an unused laptop, and have a play with Linux at the same time.
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