[ltp] 380XD upgrading.

[Richard Neill]

cloakable wrote:

>>> Also, lightweight apps are the order of the day here - dillo instead of
>>> Firefox, Ayttm instead of Kopete/Gaim, etc. On that order, any ideas on
>>> good lightweight apps?

The Gnome office suite (abiword,gnumeric) is quite lightweight, 
especially if you are using GTK stuff anyway.

XMMS for music, mplayer for video.

Try also CLI apps:
   antiword, links, play, nano.

For email, you could use pine. Otherwise, the mozilla suite (seamonkey) 
is actually faster than firefox+thunderbird, especially if you use the 
GTK-1 build.

bash-completion is really worth having.

For more lightweight apps, look at the ones provided by DSL or 
puppylinux. Actually, you could just run one of those.

Make sure you have lots of swap (either a partition, or a swapfile). You 
can add a swapfile as and when needed if you wish. Ideally, you want to 
avoid swapping, but it's so much better than crashing! Also, you can 
then keep several background applications open, but swapped out