-- Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 28 February 2003, 10:05 PM -0500): > A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about > to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. > The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, > P-II 300 > 96 meg ram > 20 gig hard drive
The specs on my day-to-day machine were precisely this until recently except that I have a Celeron 366MHz processor (I now have 256MB RAM). Runs fine. I also have debian running fine on an old P-120MHz machine with 16MB RAM and a 600MB HD -- WITH X and blackbox. > I'd like to take the machine on a month-long trip, where I'd use it > mmostly for writing and checking email. My *preference* would be to > run: > > -a minimal GUI I highly recommend blackbox. > -mutt, plus something to fetch my mail from a remote location Great choice! ;-) > and... > -openoffice. As I noted above, I have openoffice running on this setup. It's slow to start, but it works, and once running doesn't slow down the system. > sigh. I'm a bit concerned that openoffice can't feasibly be run in > such an environment; but I'm revising a book manuscript that was > originally written several years ago in Word, and I really, really, > really don't want to have to edit it in emacs or something. > > So does anyone have suggesions about > -tweaks to get debian to run optimally on a (relatively) small > memory/processing speed budget; > -favorite lightweight window managers; > -if necessary, alternatives to / modifications of OpenOffice that > don't require quite so much room to work as the standard OO > installation needs? Up until recently, I was using ApplixOffice for my office needs. It isn't as full-featured as OpenOffice, but it *IS* incredibly lightweight (uses the GTK+ toolkit). If you're only needing the word processor, I believe they sell that separately for around $50 or less; the full office suite is, last I checked, around $100. > Would it perhaps be useful to compile stuff from scratch, rather than > use generic debian packages? No. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
