On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:56:00AM -0500, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > Greetings all, > > Our local Free Software User Group has a large number of donated > computers, each having 64MB of RAM and a PII or PIII processor. We are > intending to configure these computers with a useful set of software and > make them available for use by low-income people in our community. We > have no budget for buying more memory. > > My question is, if you had a computer with 64 MB of RAM, and you wanted > to give the novice user the ability to browse the web, use e-mail, > instant messaging, create documents and spreadsheets, etc. What window > manager and GUI applications would you choose? > > --
Hi Mitch,
I recently tried links2 with fb support. It does an ok (not super) job
of showing graphics on a console. as for email, mutt. I just tried a
test of matchbox suite (lightweight environment meant for small
computer). It may be an interesting test. abiword for WP if you are
using gui-lite. dillo may be ok (not super) for gui-lite.
Cheers,
Kev
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