[H-GEN] what to do with old P100, P200?

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Sun Jul 28 04:38:41 EDT 2002


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On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 06:37:08PM +1000, Matthew Taylor wrote:
> This is more of a generic question 'what lightweight windows managers 
> could I use to provide acceptable behaviour?'
> 
> I recall being shown something like kvm (Rob Brockway??), I havn't 
> looked at enlightenment, how 'lightweight' is it? what options are there 
> other than kde / gnome?

I'm already for more than seven years a happy user of fvwm (later
on fvwm95). I had it running on a P90 with 32Mb of memory.

> I'd like to turn these into useful standalone machines, that can run 
> netscape6 (for internet banking) and word processing/spreadsheet type 
> apps. Otherwise I'm looking at turning them into ltsp clients.

Netscape 6...
Please consider using them as X clients so that the memory hogs are
running on machines which are capable of running them :-/

Edwin

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