Richard Holt wrote: >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. > Agree with pretty much all of this. IceWM is not pretty but goes like greased lightning - I installed it on on of the boxes at work when Windows was terminally screwed and the poor suckahs in the office just had to use Linux ;-). Worked on a Celeron with 32MB RAM faster than KDE/GNOME did on much higher-spec boxes. OTOH, if you really love your girlfriend, I'd say get her a 128MB RAM chip - we're talking the price of a meal for two in a restaurant here.
Sir Robin
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