[email protected] writes: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 06:46:07PM +0200, Atila Nemet wrote: > > AN> Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there > > AN> window manager which is low on system resources so I > > AN> could set up X on this 486? > > > > From, the help I've got, it seems that the problem is not with the > > window manager itself (since there are people who are using X with various > > window managers on weaker machines), but with the programs I use. > > I have set up fvwm and it ran quite ok. as long as I was using some > > little applications, but when I started Netscape. It lookd like the > > time had sopped. Would a memory upgrade help in this case? > > Yep, that'll do it. > > My suggestions: > > - w3m or lynx -- console-mode browsers. Also "links", though I don't > care for it as much.
+ w3 (browser within emacs. very slow, though) > - Both Gnome and KDE have HTML browsers -- the KDE file manager (kwm) > and the Gnome Help Viewer (??). You'll need some of the > corresponding KDE/Gnome support, but you don't need KDE or Gnome per > se. besides gzilla (www.gzilla.com ?), there is also mnemonic (www.mnemonic.org). It requires multi-threading, so you need to have glibc 2.1.x (potato) try running "top": on my non-debian system, sendmail and apache were running, which wasted lots of memory. Look for all kinds of servers. -- Felix Natter
