[Sussex] Compact X

[matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:39:07 +0000 (GMT)
sussex at welikegoats.com enlightened us with:

> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> 
> > I have recently upgraded my laptop and want to give the old one to
> > my g/f, however it only has a 3.2Gb HDD, 64Mb Ram and a AMD K6
> > 450MHz processor.  I don't have the money to upgrade, so I'm after a
> > version of X that is compact and will still run mozilla and
> > Openoffice.
> 
> Firstly, when you say "a version of X", I assume you mean "a Linux
> distro". This was easy until I read mozilla and OO. Anyway, your
> choice of distro will make no difference. Lose KDE/Gnome and use a
> proper window manager to save resources. Really consider buying
> another 64MB. Replace mozilla with opera or firefox.

Ok, wasn';t specific enough, sorry! :)

I will be running:

Gentoo Linux (because I can get a really small footprint) 
Firefox, not mozilla
Open Office
a window manager (probably icewm or fluxbox but must be lightweight)
X (preferably a hacked version of xorg so it has a small footprint)

This laptop will only be used for wordprocessing and checking webmail,
so nothing else is really needed.

Matt


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