On 12 Dec 2001, Paul Harris wrote: > I've inherited an old laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook 520D, P120/40MB, 810MB) > that I'd like to use as a browsing station and for some lite word > processing. At risk of instigating a holy war, I'd welcome opinions > of what window manager, browser and editor to put on it. Yes I know X > places a burden on its limited resources, but a) I want a fully > graphical browser, b) I like WYSIOEABARAOWYAG* text editing, and c) I > like GUIs. I use Debian and KDE (KDM, Konq etc) on my main PC, but > figure that KDE might be a bit heavy for this machine. The text > editing doesn't need to be flash, but the more features the better. > Oh, and any suggestions on partition sizes would be cool too (is that > all?!) I personally would do Debian + WindowMaker on that box, and Mozilla or Konquerer for a web browser. On that small of a disk, I'd probably just go like 128mb swap and the rest as your root filesystem. No clue for your WYSblah editor. :) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500