Re: Pathetic Writer (or siagoffice)
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Ken Caldwell wrote:
> <quote who="Wilko Fokken">
>
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:40:29PM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote:
> > >
> > > I was looking for a small word processor and spreadsheet to be used on
> > > some old computers (Pentium 75 with 32MB RAM and 520MB HDD) and tried to
> > > use Pathetic Writer which is part of siagoffice but it seems to crash.
> > >
> > > Ken
> > >
> > Do you really need wordprocessing combined with a spreadsheet within one
> > single program?
> >
> > If not, you may try 'slsc' as a not so bad spreadsheet in text mode;
> > this may lead you to a better wordprocessor not overeating your system
> > ressources - if not even to working with 'latex'.
> Thanks Wilko I wil have a look at slsc. Thanks also to Ron for
> confirming the bug I guess I ought to file a bug report.
>
> I found a workable selection of packages from sid which took up only 360MB of
> disk space leaving 96MB for swap and 64MB for logging and the user's own files.
>
> The selection included mozilla-firebird, sylpheed, abiword, gnumeric,
> sodipodi and xpaint. Icewm provides a lightweight window manager. The
> output of dpkg --get-selections is attached. I tried to create a
> similar installation on another computer but the installation took up
> 425MB. I don't have the original box here to find out where the
> difference is.
>
> cheers,
>
> Ken
>
Hi Ken and Wilko,
have you looked at 'morphix lite gui' or the mini knoppix distro?
only 200 mb and has the same basic feature.
-Kev
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