On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:39:46 -0500 Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:19 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: [snip] > > My friend has a 128MB RAM/10GB HDD computer that runs fine with Fluxbox, > > XDM, and his wireless card (NIC). > > I have a Thinkpad 600: ~5.5 gig HDD, 196mb RAM, and a P2. > > I use Debian Sarge, currently, and Gnome. > > KDE and Gnome both run, but a bit slow. If you want more responsiveness, > try Xfce. Xfce 3.3 (Sarge) was really much faster on these low > resources, but I use Gnome because it's easier to use, even though it > takes approx 60 seconds to load after logging in via GDM. I run a mixture of Etch / Sid on an AMD K6, 192MB RAM, 8GB HDD. Xfce runs quite well; Iceweasel is sluggish but usable. Sylpheed for email is quite responsive, Liferea for RSS, Bluefish for coding, and of course Xfce-Terminal (with about a half dozen tabs generally open). Those are pretty much all the GUI apps I regularly use, with everything else done at the cli in the aforementioned tabs :). Startup (system, not Xfce) is slow, and IW is very sluggish, but on the whole it's quite usable even in GUI mode. Cli is of course much more responsive. [snip] > The biggest problem with this computer is using OpenOffice, which is > just slow on the resources given. Gnome Office apps open much more > quickly. Oh, I also use Abiword, but perhaps I'll have to bite the LaTex bullet ... > I love my old computer with Debian, and I wouldn't trade it for a slick > Dell running XP or Vista any day. Seconded! Celajar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
