Angus Lees wrote:
>
> \begin{Peter Rundle}
> > I've been asked by my um...friend whether they could run Linux with
> > a graphical web browser on an old Toshiba laptop (Pentium 90 with
> > 20meg of ram).
>
> X will run fine. no need to skimp, just keep it simple. don't do a big
> fancy 24bit colour background. don't run a zillion gnome-panel applets
> and drag-and-drop layers.
Yep. I found on my old 486 that fvwm 1.0 ran fine using 8bit
color and a plain solid background. Simpler to configure
than fvwm 2 or fvwm95. It gives you a launch panel, multiple
desktops, pager and icons - all you will ever need.
Afterstep, E and Gnome etc will be far too slow. Ditch twm
totally.
Mike
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