Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?
On 6/22/05, Urtzi Jauregi <urtzi@fmf.uni-lj.si> wrote:
> For e-mail, I use Sylpheed, again with very good looks and performance, and
> again available as a Debian package. For the web, the best choice I can think
> of for a low-end computer is Opera (www.opera.com), which is small, very fast
> and very pleasant to use. Or you could use a text-only browser such as lynx
> or w3m.
>
You could try Epiphany, it might be lighter than Firefox.
> Since I don't use that machine for Office work, I can't tell you which office
> suite will work best. In my experience, OpenOffice is horribly slow to start
> in any computer, but performs quite decently afterwards; I don't know about
> other suites though.
Abiword is a nice word processor. Can also read some .doc, if that's necessary.
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