On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Ken Caldwell wrote:
> <quote who="Wilko Fokken"> > > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:40:29PM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: > > > > > > I was looking for a small word processor and spreadsheet to be used on > > > some old computers (Pentium 75 with 32MB RAM and 520MB HDD) and tried to > > > use Pathetic Writer which is part of siagoffice but it seems to crash. > > > > > > Ken > > > > > Do you really need wordprocessing combined with a spreadsheet within one > > single program? > > > > If not, you may try 'slsc' as a not so bad spreadsheet in text mode; > > this may lead you to a better wordprocessor not overeating your system > > ressources - if not even to working with 'latex'. > Thanks Wilko I wil have a look at slsc. Thanks also to Ron for > confirming the bug I guess I ought to file a bug report. > > I found a workable selection of packages from sid which took up only 360MB of > disk space leaving 96MB for swap and 64MB for logging and the user's own files. > > The selection included mozilla-firebird, sylpheed, abiword, gnumeric, > sodipodi and xpaint. Icewm provides a lightweight window manager. The > output of dpkg --get-selections is attached. I tried to create a > similar installation on another computer but the installation took up > 425MB. I don't have the original box here to find out where the > difference is. > > cheers, > > Ken > Hi Ken and Wilko, have you looked at 'morphix lite gui' or the mini knoppix distro? only 200 mb and has the same basic feature. -Kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
