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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> Another friend put XP on her 
> computer with 950MHz cpu but 4GB drive and 128MB RAM, and after 2 
> service packs was down to 3% free space (after first moving AOL to 
> a second drive).  They apparently no longer offer a minimal or 
> custom installation.

The minimal was ~1.5GB with the first release and is still growing with
each service pack.

> > That's a lot of updating. Better to start with a larger distro if
> > you want that, I think.
> 
> Okay.  Another neighbor just offered to put on Redhat Fedora 3 
> which comes with Mozilla, but it is probably already and 
> out-of-date Mozilla.

Not _that_ out-of-date. Maybe a few months. The updates since then
are likely to only amount to minor bug fixes. FC3 looks like a
good option if up-to-date software is needed. DSL will probably
handle Mozilla, too. I have this old copy here which has a little
script to get Firefox (back when it was known as Firebird) and
install it.

> Opera lets you choose whether to do something with favicons.

Ignore them, probably.

> First 
> thing I do when installing opera is to toggle off all the bars.  I 
> use the keyboard.  Have you tried the Firefox add-on that numbers 
> links? 'hide-a-hint'.  Needs version 0.9 or later.

I haven't used Firefox since it was Firebird 0.6...

> >> Would it make any difference whether I use BL2 or BL3 for the above?
> >
> > Probably not, as long as you're updating everything. BL2 is usually
> > suggested for larger uses.
> 
> I don't want to get into compiling gtk, so I may skip Mozilla and 
> just show him BL2 with Opera and if he likes it, copy over my setup 
> and he can change later to Fedora and Mozilla if Opera is not 
> adequate.

Good idea.

[MPlayer]

> Some day I will try this (after compiling the Matrox kernel).  I 
> might want to get the parport BL3 to work first so I can try BL3 on 
> the neighbor's computer.  MPlayer also does Realaudio?

Yes. I can't figure out how to compile Live.COM, which lets you use
the rtsp protocol, so you need to download the file first or stream
it over HTTP/FTP.

> I keep 
> getting segfaults when I install RP8 (except on our fastest 
> computer, 475MHz). We are putting together one 600MHz computer - 
> will Mplayer work on that with 128MB RAM?

That's faster than my PII, which works great. RAM doesn't help much
with video. A good graphics card (VESA), fast CPU, and decent disk
drives will work best.

David
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