[ltp] "Light" applications for a laptop

[Joseph Manning]

On 2004-Feb-11 (Wed) at 11:44 (+0000), 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?

Dear Luis,

   A ThinkPad 770 ??? --- luxury!  Two HUNDRED and thirty-three MHz; wow!

   I'm still running a ThinkPad 755CX (75 MHz, 40 Mb ram).

   And for carefully-chosen applications, it's quite responsive.

   I use FVWM as my window manager (www.fvwm.org), which I find
   is *much* faster than GNOME or KDE.  And, I feel, more manageable.

   I use rxvt rather than xterm for a terminal; apparently it uses
   far less memory, which should indirectly make it faster, specially
   if several terminal windows are open simultaneously.  However,
   I have not actually run any tests to compare them.

   You might also try Midnight Commander (www.ibiblio.org/mc)
   for a powerful text-mode file manager.

   Good Luck!  I hope you get many more responses, I'm sure
   they would also be of great interest to me and many others.

Best Wishes, Joseph

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Joseph Manning / Computer Science / University College Cork / manning@cs.ucc.ie
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