doesn't that reveal your age? ;) Anyways, the key here is that the OP must choose lightweight apps for his laptop. My Toshiba got Slackware10 in it (minimal install), and then I opted for lightweight apps. No eye candies but I can get work done.
Mhac On 7/21/05, thad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember using os2 before win95 with 386 and 16mb ram. > > > > On 7/21/05, ZER0 FREQUENCY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Orlando Andico wrote: > > > > >those were the days.. nowadays i don't think twice about firing up a > > >huge "gnome-terminal" with fancy antialiased fonts and everything. > > > > > > > > here's a thought. dont you think some gui's just have too much color and > > complexity on their graphics? its great eye candy and the choices are > > great. im a newbie and i havent seen everything yet although im sure in > > the backwaters of the net someone is just coding and hacking a great gui > > interface which has a more simpler and non-resource hungry gui! if not, > > gimme a couple of years to get some interest on it and add another > > couple of years to learn it and a decade or so to do some actual work on > > it. <snicker> > > > > OOC, was the OS/2 WPS a resource-hungry gui? > > > > -- > > TAFKAZF > > (the artist formerly known as zero frequency) > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > -- > sometimes thruth is stranger than fiction > -bad religion > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Mhac Janapin PBTS SysAd www.pbts.net.ph ============= http://mulingsilang.blogspot.com ============= I'm an Open Source Enthusiast. c",) Mozilla Firefox 1 - getfirefox.com Mozilla Thunderbird 1 - mozilla.org OpenOffice.org 1 ============= _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
