-- Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, 02 March 2003, 02:07 AM -0800): > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > 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 > > You have a fast machine with lots of memory and HDD as long as you stay > in console. I say if you configure correctly, it is OK with X and > compact applications.
No need to stay in console. As I noted in a previous message to the thread, I operate a desktop machine with similar capabilities on a daily basis. I've used GNOME 1.4 with sawfish on it with little problem; I *prefer* blackbox with ROX-Filer. I also had a P-II 333MHz *laptop* with 32MB RAM and a 3GB hard drive at one point, and it ran xfce wonderfully, and I was even able to utilize Netscape 4 (a notorious memory hog) quite well in X. > > I'd like to take the machine on a month-long trip, where I'd use it > > mostly for writing and checking email. My *preference* would be to > > run: > > -a minimal GUI > > If you insist on X, use blackbox or flashbox. They are small and fast > WM. that would be 'fluxbox' -- it's a blackbox spinoff. The *box WMs are all very fast and small. > > and... > > -openoffice. > > That is big software. As long as you keep other staff small, it may be > usable on X. Do not use too much color or virtual screen which eat > memory. Keep daemon minimum. I agree with this -- OO.o is very large. However, once loaded, it's quite fast. Don't have much else going at the same time. > > 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. > > Just a thoughts. New Word can save document in XML or HTML. If you are > reorganizing few contents, you may be able to get-by by saving document > into these format and complete editing documents in text file. But he doesn't *want* to edit it as text... Although there are a good many good text editors out there, editing XML or HTML is not entirely fun. If you can export to RTF format, I *believe* AbiWord is capable of reading this, and that might be another good solution. Test it first -- I've had problems importing RTF on occasion if the MS markup was too MS-centric. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://matthew.weierophinney.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
