Hi everyone,
A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, P-II 300 96 meg ram 20 gig hard drive
I'd like to take the machine on a month-long trip, where I'd use it mmostly for writing and checking email. My *preference* would be to run:
-a minimal GUI -mutt, plus something to fetch my mail from a remote location
and... -openoffice.
sigh. I'm a bit concerned that openoffice can't feasibly be run in such an environment; but I'm revising a book manuscript that was originally written several years ago in Word, and I really, really, really don't want to have to edit it in emacs or something.
Abiword looks good and seems compatible to certain degree (install from testing).
So does anyone have suggesions about -tweaks to get debian to run optimally on a (relatively) small
memory/processing speed budget;
-favorite lightweight window managers;
IceWM is great (for me). It has windows-like taskbar and menus, but no permanent desktop icons. The config files are easy to understand for customizing the start menu. It's fast too.
-if necessary, alternatives to / modifications of OpenOffice that don't require quite so much room to work as the standard OO installation needs?
Would it perhaps be useful to compile stuff from scratch, rather than use generic debian packages?
Doubt it. As a last resort, you could install wine/win4lin.
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