Re: Thinkpad 365X - can anyone recommend least memory hungry windows and browser
The only pre-req opera requires is libqt, but even that can be downloaded staticly inside of the binary.
The good thing about opera is that they produce deb files, so its a neat and easy *2.7 meg* install :)
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 07:42:53PM -0700, elysium@tsoft.com wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:48:27PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîca wrote:
> > I think fvwm2 should be OK for a windows manager. Did you try simply netscape
> > 4.7x as a browser? Mozilla is slow... If you care about Unicode support
> > I heard that konqueror has support (is the browser from kde), and you don't
> > need to run kde windows manager to use konqueror!
>
> Perhaps, but it is quite a lot, still. Consider the following:
>
> durant:/ # apt-get install konqueror
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> kdebase-libs kdelibs3 konqueror lesstif1 libkonq3 liblcms libmng1
> libqt2
> Need to get 14.0MB of archives. After unpacking 44.1MB will be used.
>
> Nearly 45MB _just_ for konqeuror? I don't think that's a good deal.
>
> I run windowmaker and Netscape 4.7x on a similar powered laptop, Toshiba
> Sat. Pro 420CDT with 24MB memory. It runs slow, but it is acceptable
> to me. I'm going to switch to opera, sometime, I just haven't gotten
> to it yet.
>
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