On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:41:10PM +0100, Phil Driscoll wrote:
I'm very pleased to report that I've installed Suse 7.2 on one of the 32Mb RAM 200MHz machine with the Blackbox window manager, and it works a treat! Thanks to all who suggested it!
Quick tests done so far:
Konqueror web browsing - works great. Netscape - ditto. Abiword - works fine
So the next issue for me is to select a useful range of 'non-bloat' software for the machines. The basic requirements are word processing/simple DTP, spreadsheets, some kind of graphics package (equivalents of !Draw and !Paint for Acorn aficionados) and anything else anyone thinks might be useful for a target audience of year 7 to year 11 kids.
[snip] Xfig might be useful for doing diagrams etc and isn't too hard to use and can save drawings in a variety of formats. Should be on your CD probably. xv is useful for manipulating & converting graphics. For DTP & `word processing' I use LaTeX but it would probably require too much effort to get the kids going with it. Lyx might be worth a look as it's an easy to use front end to LaTeX - can't say I've tried it but have heard good things about it. All this stuff you should be able to find with a search at: http://freshmeat.net -- Frank *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* | Boroughbridge | Tel: 01423 323019 | PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 | *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/ Beauty, brains, availability, personality; pick any two.