I have an old Mitsubishi Amity, which is smaller than a laptop, but not
as small as a palm top. It's old and built to run Windows 95, but I
know people have gotten Debian to do well on this computer. It has 48
MB of memory and a 1.4 GB hard drive, which means it does not have many
resources
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:59:32PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I have an old Mitsubishi Amity, which is smaller than a laptop, but not
as small as a palm top. It's old and built to run Windows 95, but I
know people have gotten Debian to do well on this computer. It has 48
MB of memory and a
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:59 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
Can anyone recommend or tell me about what window managers they use on
low resource systems with good results and what word processors they
use in that situation?
I've found the Blackbox window manager with the minimal style works
really
I have been using Blackbox ever since I got into Debian, mostly because it
is so small and fast. I use it with xterms, graphics, word processing and
simulations. It's great for low power beasts. I had a problem with it only
on one machine, where it routinely but spontaneously shut down X, and
Several things:
1) Do not use a desktop environment (e.g GNOME, KDE). Use just a
window manager. I personally suggest Sawfish.
2) If Abiword will work, use it. It's nice and usable. I use Emacs and
LaTeX myself, but if you want a WYSIWYG processor, Abiword is fine.
--
Leonid Grinberg
[EMAIL
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 15:04, Leonid Grinberg wrote:
Several things:
1) Do not use a desktop environment (e.g GNOME, KDE). Use just a
window manager. I personally suggest Sawfish.
My mistake, and thanks for pointing it out. I've been using KDE so long
I got lazy in distinguishing my
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I understand someone has written up a config file (forgot what the
special setting files are called) for screen writing formatting on
emacs, but, as I said, when I'm writing, I'm in a different mode, and I
just can't remember all the keystroke commands. It's hard to
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 16:11, Steve Lamb wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I understand someone has written up a config file (forgot what the
special setting files are called) for screen writing formatting on
emacs, but, as I said, when I'm writing, I'm in a different mode,
and I just can't
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Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 16:11, Steve Lamb wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I understand someone has written up a config file (forgot what the
special setting files are called) for screen writing formatting on
emacs, but, as I said,
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