[nzlug] machine pre loaded with linux

[cr]

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 22:50, cr wrote:

>
> My 10c worth - my first laptop was a  very second-hand Thinkpad i1200 with
> 64MB of RAM.   I put Debian Woody on it, it struggled with Gnome but ran
> Windowmaker nicely.   GIMP worked fine (though the images I was working on
> were intended for webpage use so typically < 500K   JPEGs); Opera was fine
> as a browser; Kmail for email; gFTP for uploads;  Bluefish and GQView
> worked fine.   Open Office was too heavy.    I could typically have
> Bluefish, Opera, GQView and GIMP loaded all at once with no strife.
>
> So as a general-purpose internet-connected home machine, it worked fine so
> long as I didn't deliberately overload it.    Which I didn't, and I never
> had a problem.   When I upgraded it to Sarge I seem to recall it was
> starting to struggle in 64MB but I didn't seriously try to lighten it as
> I'd just scored an extra 128MB of RAM.    I still have it as a standby,
> main reason I superseded it was that its battery is 100% dead so it can
> only run on the mains adapter - trip over the lead and everything dies.
>
> cr

Oops - correction to that! - I misremembered some of that -  checking back, I 
find that Debian Woody worked OK with Gnome in 64MB, it wasn't till I put 
Sarge on it I had to cut it back to Windowmaker - my first para. there 
relates to Sarge not Woody.   

cr