[linux-help] Re: Kool download complete linux off of CD Works

[James Lancaster <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 20 December 2002 00:03, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of bruce
> >
> > On Thursday 19 December 2002 05:22 pm, you wrote:
> > > index.html  choose "en" it explains that anything less than
> > > 64meg of ram will not support xwindows.
> > >
> > > mike
> >
> > Makes you think it is a pretty damn good program if it runs on
> > 32MB then, doesn't it.  It hardly stuttered - just was awfully
> > slow.  Sometimes I try it first then RTFM.
> > bruce
>
> Did it set up swap space?  With sufficient swap space, you can run just
> about any programs you choose, just so damn slow without sufficient amount
> of physical RAM.
>
> Knoppix was pretty cool that I could try out how linux/KDE would run on my
> main PC.  (Which it worked pretty good, especially considering all apps
> running off of CD)  One thing I didn't like is the inability to try out
> software that is not loaded by default.  I wanted to try Japanese input
> system and binary news reader, since those are 2 key factors for me to
> ditch Win2k completely and convert to Linux full time at home.  Oh well.
>
Which Japanese input systems have you tried, and how easy/hard are they to 
setup and use?

James L


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