On Friday 20 July 2001 15:36, Gary Stainburn wrote:
One suggestion - don't run kmail
according to top, mine's using 24MB ram
No need - the kid's emails are all handled by a remote webmail system. Although we haven't finally decided on what applications to run, the requirements are fairly simple: Word processing. I like AbiWord - it does enough and is small and fast, but its graphical import capabilities are too restrictive at the moment- png, bmp and svg only. The addition of jpeg would turn the tables here since png and svg are good 'forward looking' formats. In the light of that, it may well have to be KWord which seems pretty good to me, but is a bit on the fat side for 32Mb. I do like the idea of xml file formats though - it should provide ample scope for building easy content generation tools for the intranet. Spreadsheet. Currently playing with KSpread and Gnumeric - don't know yet! Web browsing. Konqueror seems to be the leanest up to date graphical web browser (with free file manager!)- unless Opera does it better or in less memory. Database. I've not yet found anything suitable yet - the school want something along the lines of Access or DataPower, but I'm inclined to go for a MySQL/PHP solution running in the web browser. I just haven't had time to write it yet :) and phpMyAdmin is a bit too technical for the intended audience (although if I had my way, I'd make the kids learn SQL instead of using a 'create flashy but useless database' wizard). Vector drawing. I've played with a few packages but still not found anything as good/easy to use as Acorn !Draw (which is what the kid's currently use). Cheers -- Phil Driscoll