On May 09 2005, J. Van Lierde wrote: > If you want to use your mouse, I think you have to pick your window > manager (a lot of posters seem to like flux box) and apps for their size
Indeed, fluxbox is an amazing window manager for those with little resources. Highly recommended, especially if you use it with the "Minimal" style, where gradients etc are not used (which are said to consume some memory). > (i.e. forget about firefox, openoffice etc.) A low-resource machine is a good motivation to learn to use LaTeX and use Emacs (yes, I'm not kidding) as a central application (to browse the web, read e-mail, type text, act as a file manager, as an advanced IDE for Java programs with ecb/speedbar/bovinator etc). Hope this helps, Rogério. P.S.: Perhaps an idea for a "light" distribution would be to base it on Debian and use one of the lighter libc's (dietlibc, for instance) for building the system. I'd be sincerely curious to know how much faster such a system would run, especially on computers with limited cache (like my main computer, a Duron 600MHz). -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
