[sword-devel] Ubuntu

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

Thank you so much Roberto.  I hadn't thought of the desktop environment - I 
was using the default KDE desktop - I'll try the WindowMaker - !

I almost missed your message - it appeared blank, but there was a TXT file 
attached.  I pasted the message below.  I guess this is what your mailer 
does - it produces blank messages in Microsoft Outlook Express!  Your mailer 
was Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002).

I was just about to put on Windows98SE on the machine, and grab the updates 
before MicroSoft stops supporting Win98SE this year and making a total 
backup of the computer so I'd have a "new" and up to date copy of the 
operating system.  I might just do this anyway.   It might be nice to have 
an updated Win98 so I could restore it to a computer.

Thanks for all the good advice.

Blessings to all.

David Ring
Green Harbor, MA 02041
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto at familiasanchez.net>
To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Ubuntu

It is not so much a matter of distro as a matter of desktop environment.
 Choose a lightweight window manager, lightweight web browser and other
lightweight apps and you should do fine.

For example, on that machine I would personally use:

WindowMaker (which I use on all my machines, regardless of speed)
AbiWord Firefox or Galeon (or even Dillo if you can do without many 
features)
Sylpheed

Naturally, there are many other packages out there.  I know that on the
Debian lists (-devel and -user) there are many recent discussions on
recommended packages for a lighweight desktop.

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto