Ibex on a PIII?

[Joel Oliver]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/10/29 Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de>:
>   
>> agreed. But I understood that we are not talking about a sophisticated
>> server, serving data to a huge number of users. I thought that it was a
>> plain old desktop for boring Office work. For this imho the 650 will do
>> ok, given a slim windows manager and a sufficient amount of RAM.
>>
>>     
>
> Abiword or Koffice maybe, but not Open Office. Open Office really does
> need a modern CPU or else it takes literally minutes to load, and
> things like spellcheck become almost impossible. It is both CPU and
> memory intensive.
>
>   
I'm using Hardy on a slow dell latitude PIII 500MHz computer with 512M 
RAM.  It is slow, but usable... Especially after ditching Gnome and KDE 
and going with xubuntu-desktop (xfce)

It runs OO pretty decent... Except for long delays with Impress with 
picture slideshows, but even a P4 takes a long to load these...

For even more speed and less RAM requirement, try Fluxbox.

Linux Mint (A Ubuntu derivative) even has a fluxbox edition for slow (or 
fast) computers.

Fluxbox runs much faster than xfce even...

http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_elyssa_fluxbox.php

I'm more of an Ubuntu person, so you could just apt get fluxbox... But 
knowing how slow these computers are, Ubuntu needs more "restricted" 
drivers and software installed while Linux Mint is more ready otb.  
Searching though Synaptic for all the software and installing it takes 
HOURS on my slow P3 with its lowly 2300 RPM drive so the less I have to 
fuss with the better...