Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Oct 2002 07:27 UTC
If there are two things in this apartment that I don't like, that would first be the dog upstairs which barks at 5 AM almost every morning, and the fact that UPS almost never deliver things on our door. They never bother to check if we are in. The SuSE people were very kind to send us the Professional version of SuSE 8.1, but unfortunately, I received it 10 days later after it arrived in the apartment's complex. But now we got it here, we gave it a spin for almost a week, and here is what we think about it.
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>>> "I second that. I think that fonts are an issue in Linux. Major distributions should have a fonts development team working to create a couple good anti-aliased fonts. I think that the linux distros were not working on this because MS had the fonts up on thier server for so long for free. The companies became dependant on those fonts. Now new fonts need to be designed and placed under the GPL. Then there would truly be free fonts available."
I think you can get MS core fonts package from this site now:
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
>>> "Actually a P166 is more than enough for X. You just need to build a light system and pick a light window manager.
I can recommend Blackbox, Fluxbox, WindowMaker and IceWM for you... KDE and Gnome would be dog-slow though.
Also pick light apps like Phoenix for web browser, xmms for mp3, AbiWord for word edtior, Sylpheed for mail etc etc"
I agree, hopefully in the future I can get a distro with specific support to low-end system. My Pentium 166MMX with 128MB Ram was much of a waste just because of the slow desktop environment.... IceWM is nice.