[wellylug] Next Wellington Installfest?

[Tony Booth]

I have a low-end (48MB ram, 166Mhz, 900Mb HD) laptop, which copes well with:

* Debian 3.0, 2.4.18 kernel (apparently you should use 2.4.16 if you want
ALSA drivers)
* X/Blackbox
* Galeon (Dillo if you don't need Java or tables!!!)
* Sylpheed
* AbiWord (blech, but runs fast enough)
* 2D Games
* text-based dev tools

That leaves about 300Mb free.

You could cut out gcc and co. and have more room for other toys, but dselect
didn't seem to like me doing that (dependencies).

A first-timer might choke on the Debian install (it took me a while to get
most things going and I have no sound), but once it is up and running it's
sweet -- apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.

Cheers
Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David McNab [mailto:david at rebirthing.co.nz]
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 October 2002 17:32
> To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [wellylug] Next Wellington Installfest?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 16:00, Damon Lynch wrote:
> > How much RAM does her machine have, and does it have a 
> network card? 
> > Also, are you recommending sawfish over metacity?  Personally I find
> > sawfish powerful but totally overwhelming!  Metacity is so 
> much simpler,
> > and does all I need ;-)
> 
> Hmm, good points all of you :)
> 
> In retrospect, I agree OO would be unwise - Abiword might be the go,
> particularly since she's more into learning the Web at this stage.
> 
> Given the constraint of 32MB RAM and 1GB HDD, perhaps something really
> simple like Phoenix, Abiword, and ICEwm/Blackbox/FLWM might do the
> trick.
> 
> Maybe Debian, with Synaptic for apt-get access perhaps.
> 
> BTW - her system has onboard NIC.
> 
> Cheers
> David
> 
> 
> > 
> > Damon
> > 
> > On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 15:42, Klenner, Colin wrote:
> > > WellyLug is certainly a good place for newbies - hell I 
> am still one after
> > > all this time ... 
> > > 
> > > First thing may be to improve HDD space, though?
> > > Colin
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David McNab [mailto:david at rebirthing.co.nz]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 22 October 2002 2:53 
> > > To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: [wellylug] Next Wellington Installfest?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Can anyone tell me when the next GNU/Linux installfest is 
> scheduled for?
> > > 
> > > A friend of mine, Keri, a total computer newbie, has just 
> bought her
> > > first PC, a P133 with 1GB drive, and after telling her 
> about GNU/Linux,
> > > she's pretty keen to go in that direction.
> > > 
> > > (IMO, her hardware should suffice for X, OpenOffice, sawfish and
> > > gnome/kde libs, giving her basic web access and WP).
> > > 
> > > And, are WLUG meetings a friendly place for newbies? Or 
> are they best
> > > for people with good GNU/Linux experience?
> > > 
> > > Despite being a total newbie, Keri packs a decent IQ, and 
> is keen to
> > > ramp up to the point of learning programming, website 
> development etc.
> > > What's the possibility that she might find support and 
> encouragement
> > > within the WLUG community?
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > David
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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