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Re: Stripped down versions of software



On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:04:20 +0100
Piers Kittel <edinfo-list@biased.org> wrote:
> I'm installing debian on a 486 laptop, and want to use it for X, IRC, www
> and email, so which window manager is best to use for the 100MHz laptop with
> 20mb RAM, and which IRC, WWW and email clients would also be good to use
> here?

    IceWM would be an excellent choice.  For IRC in all honesty I'd run a
console one in an rxvt terminal.  Mail...  Pine would be my first choice with
mutt a second.  Again in a console window.  WWW I'd go with Opera.

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