Konrad Scorciapino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/06/2003 (09:53) : > Hello, > > I am trying to run LyX on my old P166, but it gets too slow. So, I was > wondering if: > > 1 - Is there a lighter version of LyX or a lighter program that works > just like it?
I have a P166 and I don't have a problem with lyx. I use the xforms version. Of course it is much slower than on the 1GHz at work, but it works fine. However you should take care and remove all other applications you don't need to run. For example don't run Gnome or KDE if you can as they will eat your RAM and then you are left swapping with lyx. XFCE (http://www.xfce.org) is an alternative. The new version 4 looks real nice, but remember that all the Gtk 2.x based programs use more RAM than the old Gtk 1.2 based. > 2 - Can I convert .rtf to .lyx? Don't know. Perhaps try abiword and see if it can save as some other format that you can convert into lyx. Preben -- «It's probably worth pointing out that C's pointer arithmetic is not only dangerous, and a significant source of errors, but it also makes programs run slower.» - James Kanze on comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++.moderated
