Re: Why are so many people using font servers?
On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 09:07, Adam Kessel wrote:
> I originally enabled both xfs and xfs-xtt in an effort to get OpenOffice
> to render properly. All of the smart quotes were coming out as ?'s, and
> like many others here I just banged away at it until I got it to work.
>
> I've got this running on a P1 class machine with 96M RAM, however, which
> as you might imagine is excruciatingly slow. So if I can get rid of these
> things and still have OO render properly, that will be great.
Gak! That's one reason your box is so slow...
> Moving slightly off topic... are there other ways to optimize XF86Config
> for low-end machines? I would like to have the bare minimum set up that
> still works properly, and I wonder if there are other parts of the X
> configuration that might be bringing down my system.
Don't know about configuring XFree, but using machine-friendly apps sure
will help.
- What window manager are you using? (I like xfce, because it is easier
to config than iceWM and the other slim WMs.
- Never use GNOME 2.x or KDE 3.x apps.
- A video card that has good 2D h/w acceleration drivers under X.
Personally, I think the NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 with the nv driver is
perfect for this.
- Do you need MS Word/Excel compatibility? If not, try Lyx, a GUI
front end to latex which is very resource-light.
- How about email? mutt or pine are about as light as you can get.
If you like GUI, Sylpheed is great.
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