[ltp] "Light" applications for a laptop

[Luis Lebron]

Richard Neill wrote:

>>> I am currently running RedHat 9 on a 770  thinkpad (233Mhz, 96Mb 
>>> ram).  Eventhough it works certain applications  are  extremely  slow. 
>>
>> I would consider running an earlier release on the laptop, since the 
>> later releases are resource hogs. I have a 600 (300Mhz, 128M) and the 
>> latest distros choke it to a crawl.
>
>
> Yes, but if you install earlier ones, you have bugs which are now 
> fixed and security issues (which are no longer getting updates)
>
> Have a look here:
> http://www.rule-project.org/en/
> RULE: Run Up2date Linux Everywhere!
>
Thanks for the link. I found some good apps listed there. I have also 
replaced gnome with IceWm which is quite a bit faster.


Luis