Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:05:02 +0100
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] "State of the Art" on OS for the 100CT/64MB RAM
Lines, Nick wrote:
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:36:41 -0000
From: "Lines, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [LIB] "State of the Art" on OS for the 100CT/64MB RAM
Folks,
I'm wondering what everyone out there is running on their libbys,
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What would people recommend for a W2K based solution, and what would
people recommend for a linux graphical environment?
A stripped down Win2K: www.vorck.com/remove-ie.html
Runs fairly smooth here.
For Linux I'd stick with IceWM plus dfm for the desktop icons.
Since I got a JVC741 mini-notebook I don't use my Lib anymore (I've lend
it to a colleague to be used in a course presently), so I can't tell
which distros are best suited for the Lib1x0. I remember that recent
Mandriva distros (one of my favorites) needed > 64 MB RAM to be
installed (for the install kernel - running was OK with 64 MB or less).
Vectorlinux may also be a good choice.
What browsers would people recommend on either platform? Office suites?
Seamonkey, Firefox. These use about the same amount of RAM as IE, but IE
is loaded by default when booting Windows (unless you use Vorck's method
to avoid installing IE components in the first place, URL see above).
I've got an old Opera 5.12 lying around, now that's a fast one.
Office: MS-Office 97 is still the fastest. But there are also 602 Office
suite, Abiword, ....
OpenOffice.org crawls and eats memory but once loaded it's not too slow.
If people are interested, I'll try to collate the responses into
something that we can chuck on a web page somewhere - perhaps a howto
for minimising W2K, and a best practice for Linux?
The first is already done by Fred Vorck. On the web there are or have
been several sites on Linux on Libbies. www.webarchive.org might help here.
David Chien has a good overview on his site to start with, including
some of your suggestions.
Philip
