Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:30:37 +0200
Benedek Frank <linux@celifornia.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:34:24 +0200
> Koen Vermeer <k.a.vermeer@tnw.tudelft.nl> wrote:
>
> > Without having looked at the other answers, just my suggestions:
> >
> > On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 08:56 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote:
> > > I am looking for a nice FTP client. Not fancy, just capable. I used
> > > to use Kbear, but as it starts with a "K", I want to drop it.
> >
> > Try gftp. It uses a gtk GUI, and has quite some options.
>
> Yes thanks. Great app, low Resource usage. Best FTP I have seen. Fast
> too.
> >
> > > I am looking for a console that isnt that heavy as Konsole or
> > > Gnome-terminal, but has the ability to change the colour and font at
> > > least. I use xterm now, and that is fast and all, but it is a bit on
> > > the simple side. I cannot open new tabs for example, if I need two
> > > sessions, I need to start a second one.
> >
> > Did you try the xfce4-terminal I suggested earlier?
> >
> It isnt a debian package so I didnt. And now I can say, that what a
> fellow user suggested, multi-aterm serves the best so far. Uses now
> under 2MB Ram with several tabs open. That is as good as I could think
> of.
>
> > > A file manager, that isnt very resource hungry, but can connect to
> > > SMB shares, and has a fairly useful interface.
> >
> > What about the standard xfce file manager (xffm4)?
> >
> Yes, the one I torture now. I do not like it that much. I liked KDEs
> konqueror a lot, but resource hungry, and I do not use anything from KDE
> from now on. MC for console is pretty good, but I cannot browse SAMBA
> shares with it. xffm4 lets me do that, so that is a plus for that app. I
> cannot set it to be icon view, and that drives me nuts. I liked holding
> and dragging feature of konqueror, so I miss that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
Have a look at
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/23/2226202
A small overview of several filers.
> > Koen
> >
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