From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: minimal system requirements Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:35:21 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84lm0o8wye.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044863549 16735 80.91.224.249 (10 Feb 2003 07:52:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:52:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18i8jq-0004Lm-00 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 08:52:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18i8iW-00089f-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 02:51:04 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.35.216) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1044863404 43109775 134.91.35.216 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:xd39YGU4Ux84MDHT7FbQ64oudXs= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110013 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6519 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6519 Cyprian Laskowski writes: > I will be moving to Japan for a while and my friend has an old laptop > which he's offered to give me with the following basic specs: Pentium > 75, 24 MB RAM, and 540 MB harddrive. > > I'd like to install a debian linux system on it with X, and pretty > much nothing else (although it would also be great to have LaTeX and > ghostscript, but I think that's pushing it). I think the X11 will be the big problem. Hm. 24MB of RAM. That's really really small. It will be much easier to get LaTeX to run in that environment than X. I used to use X with 32 MB and it wasn't fun. I used the Ion window manager to avoid excessive swapping, but it was still easy for the laptop to swap. Hm. But there is a Tiny-X or somesuch howto, maybe that helps. -- A turnip curses Elvis