Success with small memory machine!
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. It would help if there is not too much of a culture shock involved in moving between the Acorn machines and Windows boxes already in use throughout the school, and some degree of file format compatibility would be useful. I'm happy with konqueror for web browsing, and the teachers and pupils use a web mail system to access their emails, so there is no additional requirement there. Cheers (and thanks again for helping me get this far!) -- Phil Driscoll
Hi Phil, Try Gnumeric, Xpaint and a package called Quicklist (www.quicklist.org) for databases, all work well on a PR100 system with 32Mb Ram. Dia also works well on the same machine. Hope thats helpful Alan 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. It would help if there is not too much of a culture shock involved in moving between the Acorn machines and Windows boxes already in use throughout the school, and some degree of file format compatibility would be useful. I'm happy with konqueror for web browsing, and the teachers and pupils use a web mail system to access their emails, so there is no additional requirement there.
Cheers (and thanks again for helping me get this far!) -- Phil Driscoll
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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.
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