On 05-Nov-01 MJ Ray wrote:

Glen:

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faster than Mozilla - is there a suite of 'lighter' programs that I should choose? Any recommendations?

There are two things I feel happy with recommending at the moment:

http://www.icewm.org/ or http://www.xfce.org/

Which you'll get on with better depends on your personal taste and whether you mind having to put it together yourself. XFCE has a website being put together for it called "XFCE IP" or something similar which will list applications that work well with it. -- MJR

MJR also recommended rox filer to me the other day that I think is the best low over head file manager followed by xftree which comes with xfce.

I am still running my main box as a icewm system on a P200 which is faster than a P133 but it makes a fair box for most things I only want mozilla to run faster oh and my compiler and Delphi, as most things I use are low power.

XFMail is a good light weight mail client which will be fine unless you already have a preference (Its not ideal but I use it and I don't loose emails)

Oh and redhat ?.0 such as 5.0 6.0 and now 7.0 dont have a good reputation. (Suse also seem to be more buggy with their ?.0 releases too) I would suggest you move to a more modern distribution. Cheap bytes is a good place to start and the Linux emporium. A trawl through our archives will show you that distributions are always a contentious subject but I do feel most of us would agree that starting with red hat 6.0 is not the best example of Linux.

Do we still have some old Mandrake 7.2 distributions left the one I got displayed in Dereham and Swaffham libarys where all but 3 copies gone within a week.

Regards

Owen

Date: 05-Nov-01 Time: 15:19:42