Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-08 Thread Serge Rey
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 02:06:06AM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote: > Thought I'd let you know that blackbox and opera were the most responsive on > the thinkpad 365X. > My laptop is now browsing the web quickly, and without delay. > > you guys have made an old man and computer very happy ;-) what d

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-08 Thread Serge Rey
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 02:06:06AM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote: > Thought I'd let you know that blackbox and opera were the most responsive on the >thinkpad 365X. > My laptop is now browsing the web quickly, and without delay. > > you guys have made an old man and computer very happy ;-) what d

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Barry Pretsell
To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:39 PM Subject: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser All,   I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a Cyber Trident 9320 di

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Barry Pretsell
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:39 PM Subject: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser All,   I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a Cyber Trident 9320 display card (

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Heather
> Galeon and SkipStone are lightweight browsers, they both are mozilla > based but they claim to be quick and light :) They are debian packages, but their packages depend on the fatso, because the mozilla maintainer hasn't yet split moz-embed (or whatever it would be called) from the whole ball

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Yannick Asselin
Galeon and SkipStone are lightweight browsers, they both are mozilla based but they claim to be quick and light :) URL: http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ http://galeon.sourceforge.net I haven't tried either but that's what they claim.. Love & Light! Yannick

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Adam McDaniel
The only pre-req opera requires is libqt, but even that can be downloaded staticly inside of the binary. The good thing about opera is that they produce deb files, so its a neat and easy *2.7 meg* install :) On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 07:42:53PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 20

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Yannick Asselin
Galeon and SkipStone are lightweight browsers, they both are mozilla based but they claim to be quick and light :) URL: http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ http://galeon.sourceforge.net I haven't tried either but that's what they claim.. Love & Light! Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Adam McDaniel
The only pre-req opera requires is libqt, but even that can be downloaded staticly inside of the binary. The good thing about opera is that they produce deb files, so its a neat and easy *2.7 meg* install :) On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 07:42:53PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Friday 07 September 2001 04:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:48:27PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîca wrote: > > I think fvwm2 should be OK for a windows manager. Did you try simply > > netscape > > 4.7x as a browser? Mozilla is slow... If you care about Unicode support > >

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-07 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Friday 07 September 2001 04:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:48:27PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîca wrote: > > I think fvwm2 should be OK for a windows manager. Did you try simply netscape > > 4.7x as a browser? Mozilla is slow... If you care about Unicode support > > I h

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread elysium
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:48:27PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîca wrote: > I think fvwm2 should be OK for a windows manager. Did you try simply netscape > 4.7x as a browser? Mozilla is slow... If you care about Unicode support > I heard that konqueror has support (is the browser from kde), and you do

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread elysium
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:48:27PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîca wrote: > I think fvwm2 should be OK for a windows manager. Did you try simply netscape > 4.7x as a browser? Mozilla is slow... If you care about Unicode support > I heard that konqueror has support (is the browser from kde), and you d

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Rolf Heckemann
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:29:11PM -0500, Adam Kessel wrote: > galeon is available as a .deb, most recently: > galeon_0.11.5-3_i386.deb > in non-US/main. Didn't expect it there -- thank you! R. -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmith

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Barry Pretsell
rsday, September 06, 2001 9:39 PM Subject: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser All,   I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a Cyber Trident 9320 display card (has 1Mb on board). I have tried fvwm, fv

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Adam Kessel
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:50:50PM +0100, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > You can try minimalistic window managers such as wm2, flwm, lwm... I > doubt that it will help, though. Your problem is your choice of > application software -- I'm surprised that it runs at all :-) Check > out galeon (sorry, no .d

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Ignasi Palou-Rivera
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:48:27PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? wrote: > On 6/09/2001, 21:39:53, Barry Pretsell wrote: > > All, > > > > I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a > > Cyber Trident 9320 display card (has 1Mb on board). > > I have tried fvwm, fvwm2, ic

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Paul C. Nendick
Have you tried w3m? I have found it to be a superior text based web browser. Combined with a SVGAlib console based image viewer like zgv or fbi to view selected images from a give page, it makes for a capable browsing environment. Try it, you'll like it. If you have your heart set on X, then my b

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Rolf Heckemann
You can try minimalistic window managers such as wm2, flwm, lwm... I doubt that it will help, though. Your problem is your choice of application software -- I'm surprised that it runs at all :-) Check out galeon (sorry, no .deb yet). If you don't mind non-free, look at opera (.deb on www.opera.c

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 6/09/2001, 21:39:53, Barry Pretsell wrote: > All, > > I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a Cyber > Trident 9320 display card (has 1Mb on board). > I have tried fvwm, fvwm2, icewm, and wdm. I have tried mozilla as a browser > and it takes 3-4 minutes to disp

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Barry Pretsell wrote: > > I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a > Cyber Trident 9320 display card (has 1Mb on board). > I have tried fvwm, fvwm2, icewm, and wdm. I have tried mozilla as a > browser and it takes 3-4 minutes to display anything. O

Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Barry Pretsell
All,   I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a Cyber Trident 9320 display card (has 1Mb on board). I have tried fvwm, fvwm2, icewm, and wdm. I have tried mozilla as a browser and it takes 3-4 minutes to display anything. Of course I could use lynx, but I reall

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Rolf Heckemann
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:29:11PM -0500, Adam Kessel wrote: > galeon is available as a .deb, most recently: > galeon_0.11.5-3_i386.deb > in non-US/main. Didn't expect it there -- thank you! R. -- Rolf Heckemann (Dr. med.) Research Fellow Department of Imaging Hammersmit

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Barry Pretsell
er 06, 2001 9:39 PM Subject: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser All,   I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a Cyber Trident 9320 display card (has 1Mb on board). I have tried fvwm, fvwm2, icewm,

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Adam Kessel
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:50:50PM +0100, Rolf Heckemann wrote: > You can try minimalistic window managers such as wm2, flwm, lwm... I > doubt that it will help, though. Your problem is your choice of > application software -- I'm surprised that it runs at all :-) Check > out galeon (sorry, no .

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Ignasi Palou-Rivera
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:48:27PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? wrote: > On 6/09/2001, 21:39:53, Barry Pretsell wrote: > > All, > > > > I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a Cyber >Trident 9320 display card (has 1Mb on board). > > I have tried fvwm, fvwm2, icew

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Paul C. Nendick
Have you tried w3m? I have found it to be a superior text based web browser. Combined with a SVGAlib console based image viewer like zgv or fbi to view selected images from a give page, it makes for a capable browsing environment. Try it, you'll like it. If you have your heart set on X, then my

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Rolf Heckemann
You can try minimalistic window managers such as wm2, flwm, lwm... I doubt that it will help, though. Your problem is your choice of application software -- I'm surprised that it runs at all :-) Check out galeon (sorry, no .deb yet). If you don't mind non-free, look at opera (.deb on www.opera.

Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 6/09/2001, 21:39:53, Barry Pretsell wrote: > All, > > I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a Cyber >Trident 9320 display card (has 1Mb on board). > I have tried fvwm, fvwm2, icewm, and wdm. I have tried mozilla as a browser and it >takes 3-4 minutes to displ

Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser

2001-09-06 Thread Barry Pretsell
All,   I'm running Debian potato on an IBM Thinkpad 365X 24MB RAM, which has a Cyber Trident 9320 display card (has 1Mb on board). I have tried fvwm, fvwm2, icewm, and wdm. I have tried mozilla as a browser and it takes 3-4 minutes to display anything. Of course I could use lynx, but I reall