On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:17:33PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:57:08AM -0500, cecil wrote:
cecil wrote:
I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :(
Cecil
Maybe I should get a different laptop? Is a 150 mhz machine with 2 gig hd and 32 meg ram going to be able to do the job? I'm worried now.
Hi Cecil, I have a libretto 110: p1-166 32mb ram, 10gb (up from 2gb). I have X with windowmaker running with mozilla-fire$PICK_ONE. Its not a speed deamon but it works. Sounds like you'll be doing non-gui progamming anyway unless this is some upper level class. most beginning classes in pascal,fortran,c,c++, etc. use stdout, not gui stuff. At most, the program may use a generic gui output method to simulate a console. Maybe you teacher will ok you submitting a text file dump and not the fancy screen shot.
And if you _really_ want a window manager that looks like you're operating on the console apart from graphical output from time to time, use ion (or ion-devel). I used that on my old laptop when I was tired of waiting for gnome etc. and didn't want to be distracted from my thesis work at all. If I _did_ want to be distracted, I used windowmaker with some nice dockapps. Looks just fine!
David
WindowMaker is surprisingly lightweight and high performing.
If you have to go 'X' then this might be the best option. IIRC it uses 4MB of memory footprint. Probably better than fvwm but I'm not sure about twm.
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