can you recomend me a lightweight Linux distribution.
Rajiv Vyas
rajiv1 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 00:15:45 UTC 2005
sahutoglu sonmez <sahutsonmez at yahoo.com> writes:
> Hello,
> I have an old Dell laptop that has 128 mb ram and 3GB
> harddisk. I would like to have Latex, matlab, and
> mathematica on it. I don't want to it to be slow. So I
> would like something lightweight. Since I am a newbie
> I would like to be able to install programmes like in
> Ubuntu using something like synaptic.
> Can anyone recomend me a distribution.
> Thanks in advance.
Try a light weight GUI. Something like blackbox. That might do the trick.
Still it will be slow. Matlab is a resource hungry program and so is
mathematica. I have a laptop with PII 400, 10 GB hard drive and 192 MB ram
and it's slow. So, I use abiword instead of OO and XPDF instead of Adobe.
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