Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 16:56, Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Our local Free Software User Group has a large number of donated
> computers, each having 64MB of RAM and a PII or PIII processor. We are
> intending to configure these computers with a useful set of software and
> make them available for use by low-income people in our community. We
> have no budget for buying more memory.
>
> My question is, if you had a computer with 64 MB of RAM, and you wanted
> to give the novice user the ability to browse the web, use e-mail,
> instant messaging, create documents and spreadsheets, etc. What window
> manager and GUI applications would you choose?
>
> --
>
> Mitch Wiedemann
> Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association
> http://ithacafreesoftware.org
I've set up an old 233 MHz laptop with XFCE. It really has alot of the
features one needs. Rox-Filer is a nice file manager to use with it. I seem
to remember reading that you can set up XFCE in kiosk mode too.
--
C. Hurschler
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