On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 05:56:37PM +0300, Shoshannah Forbes wrote: > > On Friday, Jun 6, 2003, at 13:35 Asia/Jerusalem Alexander Maryanovsky > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Now, this would be fine and dandy, as she doesn't > >need anything special that Linux doesn't support, but her computer is > >very > >old. I haven't been told the specs exactly, yet, but my guess would be > >something like Pentium 200Mhz 64MB and probably an under 500MB HD. > > My mother had knoppix kde (KDE 3.1.1) installed on her machine HD > (which makes it a debian unstable), and it works fine- she is in love > with it :-) > Her machine is similar: > P166, 64 MB RAM but she has a 4GB HD.
I thought knoppix uses a ramdisk even with a harddisk installation. Isn't it correct? If so: it wastes precious memory on a ramdrive (which isn't really necessary). Even if a 16MB ramdisk is used, The diffrence between 48MB and 64MB is quite meaningful. Another issue: Knoppix is intended to be a simple demo CD. I don't thin anybody monitors its components for exiting security issues (e.g.: when components from debain-unstable update for security reasons it won't be obvious. And many of the packages in knoppix are packages originally from debian testing/unstable) > > Boot/login is extremly slow, but we keep the machine always on. She > discovered that it is faster to put different apps in different > desktops and switch between them, then having them on one desktop and > minimize/maximize. Starving for more memory :-( > > Apps she uses on a regular basis: > koffice > OpenOffice 1.1 beta Works well enough with 64MB? > kopete > konki for browsing > linneighborhood (for browsing our local lan) > kmail > jotz -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
