[Lilux-help] Re: Installing LINUX

[Pascal.Steichen at linux.lu]

> Hi Patrick,
>
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Patrick Kaell wrote:
>
>> Eric Dondelinger wrote:
>> > A lightweight windowmanager would certainly help, just as using
>> > lightweight applications (i.e. not Mozilla, but dillo or somesuch).
>>
>> I am administrating an old Pentium I 233 with 64Gb RAM used for Internet
>
> <mode=nitpicking>
> 64Gb? Gigabit... i.e. 8GB, on a PI... should be hard to address ;-)
> </mode>
> Of course, everybody knows you meant 64MB :-)
>
>> Access only. Running WindowMaker with Mozilla is no problem. Loading
>> time for Mozilla: ~8sec (honestly). The 1.7 series are much faster than
>> the <= 1.6 ones.
>
> I don't doubt 1.7 is faster than previous versions, but I do seriously
> doubt that 8sec figure. I'll accept it, if you had Mozilla started
> previously, so that parts may still be in ramdisk/cache somewhere
> (even if there's not much of that on a 64MB box - you can still feel
> the difference).
> Also, on Windows boxes, Mozilla can be made to preload most of
> itself so that startup times feel lower (same as IE or MS Office
> do), you'll just pay for it at boot & login time.
>
> I just booted up my laptop (Centrino 1.6, 512MB RAM), it took
> Mozilla 1.7.2 about 11 seconds to start up (and the thing is
> compiled to this specific machine - Gentoo). After closing it
> and starting it up again, it took about 1 second only (of course
> here most of it still fits into cache, despite usage of KDE and
> having some apps running in parallel already).
>
>> Dillo is also fine and amazing for its size. But it doesn't have Frames,
>> SSL and so on.
>
> It has limitations, no doubt. Might I interest you in w3m instead?
> Even if it's for textmode, depending on the version, you can have
> proper display of tables, graphics etc.
> Anyway, I've found this kind of tools extremely helpful when only
> "lesser" machines were available for internet access.
>
> Btw, is anyone here affiliated with the APSI? I visited their website
> yesterday, it must be one of the worst layouts I've seen - at least
> as displayed here in Mozilla. They really should do something about
> it.

This is true, I noticed it already some time ago ;)

>
> Greets Eric
>
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