Its impressive that it runs at all on systems meant for Win95... I found that by replacing: - gnome with XFCE (new beta version) - eye of gnome with xzgv - gimp with ida - openoffice with abiword/gnumeric/rlplot - adobe acrobat with xpdf
Scribus became much more usable since I freed up a lot of my RAM without giving up any of the functionality I need. Peter Nermander wrote: >> Out of curiosity, what are the minimum hardware requirements that >> Scribus requires? > > I think it depends a lot on what you consider useable. > > The Linux machine I have been running Scribus on is a P166 with 96 MB RAM. But > then that machine does NOT run an X-server, the X-server is on a second > machine > (I'm using an old X-Win32 demo version on a Windows machine as an X-server, > however that machine too is a P 166, but is has 128 MB RAM). > > But then some things take time, for example opening the story editor takes > around 10 seconds and if the document becomes more than a couple of pages it's > hardly useable. > > /Peter > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > >
