On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:56:28 +0200, "Linux Maniac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All! > > My girlfriend is starting to write her thesis, and I don't want her to > loose any data because of winblows. > > Her machine is a 166MHz pentium with 32 MB RAM.
Hello BAT, If her thesis is close, you might do better not to change her setup. (Old married man.) OOorg needs more resources to run well. Fact of life. Check out Abiword and Koffice as possibilities. No real experience with either. But I've written miles of words on a P-166 w/ 32MB in Word97. [Save whenever you pause and keep incremental backups on at least 3 diskettes.] > I want to install Mandrake 9.0 with blackbox or icewm, but I also need > a good word processor. My personal favorite is OpenOffice.org, but I > don't know if that would be alright for that configuration. I'm a believer in IceWM. It does exactly what I want and gets out of the way. I've read that Mdk9 has a minimal install that might be handy if it will then let you install, only what you really must have. Looking forward to trying it on my P-166,32MB box. More on your P-166, 32MB for Linux: If you can bring the RAM to a minimum of 64 MB if will do much better. If you can get 192 or 256 MB it will run very well. Problem is memory, assuming you have plenty of disk space. OOorg needs about 250 MB to install. Suggested apps: IceWM: I'd suggest that you use IceWM though you should install KDE for the apps if you have the space; otherwise, you'll need to look at XFce, that will work without KDE. IceWM works a lot like the win9x menu system (remember: Gates spent millions studying computer users) and it is much, much faster than Kde. Kde will be slow if you do need to use it. There are others such as but I like IceWM. Depends how much disk space you have. I don't know if IceWM will run under Xfce but it should. Sylpheed: email client is smaller, faster, and more flexible than Kmail. Krusader: Much smaller footprint than the Konqueror, faster, and more fit for it's purpose of file handling, zips/tgzs are simpler. Opera 6.03 or 6.10: smaller and faster. Simpler with the static version. Korganizer, Kaddressbook, Kjots for PIM purposes. Take some care in partitioning. For the basic system, these will be fine: /boot (7MB), swap (125MB), and / (root file system 250MB) regardless of the disk size, for a workstation type install. Try it, to see how much free space you have, then adjust if necessary. It works for me in Mdk8.1. Spread the balance out: /home (at least 400MB for data), /opt (250MB for OOorg), and /usr (all the rest of the disk space). This is what I'm running Mdk8.1 on a 3.1 GB disk. Try it out first. If you have a smaller disk you'll have to adjust. I do like the CPU and the network graphic indicators on the task bar in IceWM. Hope this helps. Your mileage may vary. You'll learn a lot from installing linux several times with different layouts. regards, Richard at openoffice.org en espa�ol. > Please share with me experiences of such machines + Mandrake, and tell > me which word processor shoul I us (it has to be able to export in > word97 format.) > > Thanks, > > BAT > >
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