[plug] Newby with SUSE 6.2 on a P100/16Meg

[James Tan]

Beau,

May I ask, is there a compact/lite GUI browser [no, not lynx :) ] that will
run
on lean pcs ?

James

----- Original Message -----
From: Beau Kuiper <kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Newby with SUSE 6.2 on a P100/16Meg


> On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, James Tan wrote:
> >
> > Hello comrades,
> >
> > I have to say, I've done a little fiddling around with Debian/RH4.? some
time ago
> > out of curiousity on my lowly 386s and 486s and now I've purchased [on a
sale at Carousel] a copy of SUSE 6.2 [probably a little dated by now] just
to see how
> > it runs [after all I've heard quite a bit about the performance of Linux
on leaner
> > PCs] on my P100 with 16Megs RAM.  I'm aware that Linux itself is fast
but the
> > GUI is a resource hog so I'm probably gonna get my fingers dirty to get
to learn
> > some Linux. I have two beefier PCs running windoze 2k and 98 and since
I'm don't want to mess up my HDs I'd better install SUSE on a separate
machine just in case something could go wrong.  Could someone tell me
whether this P100 with
> > 16Megs RAM is enuff for GUI/X stuff without significant HD thrashing in
the virtual
> > memory ?  I want to start getting into Linux with mininal risk.
>
> Unless you stay at the command line, or do very little in X, 16meg of ram
is
> going to hurt somewhat under linux. X is huge, bloated and plain slow. If
you
> MUST run X on this machine, get used to using a very simple window manager
> (fvwm or blackbox, or window-maker in a pinch) and NOT using netscape 4.X
:-).
> Do not run gnome, or kde, as they are garrenteed to thrash your system
into
> oblivion :-) AND ABOVE ALL, DON"T START STAROFFICE ON IT UNLESS YOU HAVE
> A WEEK TO WAIT FOR IT!!!!!!!! (sorry for shouting)
>
> Just my experience, with having to put up with slow computers with little
ram.
> Beau Kuiper
> kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au
>