On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 16:31, Alex McKenzie wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > You mean lt 800MB disk space? How much RAM?
> >
> > What distro & version, window manager, etc are you using?
> >
>
> Yes, that's free disk on /usr. I have other partitions, but they're
> doing other things. Slack 8.1 (procrastinating on the gcc-3 migration),
> 192MB ram, running fluxbox, but I may go back to xfce. Oh yeah, and
> here's a weird one, my screen is 1024x480. It's a Sony Picturebook,
> c1vn. SO there's an issue of screen real estate. For instance, here's a
> screenshot of my workspace, as I use it, with Gnumeric, as opened:
>
> http://boxchain.com/images/pbook-screen.png
Ah, a laptop with a tiny HD, eh?
Well, gnumeric is good, but not great for interaction w/ Excel.
Would you gain some more space if you re-installed S8.1, while
re-partitioning to have 1 big partition, plus 1 384MB swap partition?
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net Jefferson, LA USA "...always eager to extend a friendly claw" ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 08/17/03
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