[ltp] "Light" applications for a laptop

[Susana Sotelo Docío]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:44:06AM -0600, Luis Lebron wrote:
> I am currently running RedHat 9 on a 770  thinkpad (233Mhz, 96Mb ram).  
> Eventhough it works certain applications  are  extremely  slow.  For 
> example, it  takes  a very long time to start  OpenOffice,  Jedit, or 
> Quanta. I am looking  for  suggestion  on  applications that  would work 
> better on an older system. For example, I have found TED 
> (http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/)  and Nedit are quite responsive.
> 
> Any other suggestions?

I have a similar laptop (P233 MMX - 64 ram) with Debian Woody. I think
that a combination of Gnumeric & Abiword is faster than OpenOffice on
this kind of computer... although I prefer Latex :)

For HTML pages, I use vi, so I can't help you :)  Maybe Bluefish?

Regards,
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