[wplug] Laptop Problem

[Ben Beige]

At a browser level, once laoded Opra out preforms IE on and OS. the 
problem is usualy load time, and try links rather then lynx, then you 
get frames suport.

Ben

Keir Josephson wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>I've got a dilema that I could use a hand in resolving, and this seems to
>be a good group to pose the question to. First some background. I've been
>a moderate linux user of various distros for a few years now. Every now
>and then I throw a different version or a different config on a laptop
>that I have so I can play around with it. It's a toshiba with a 12inch tft
>display, PII-266mhz, & 160megs of ram. I've never had any problems
>installing any of the linux distributions on this box (I've only tried a
>2.2.x kernel and above).
>
>Now for the problem.
>
>I'm trying to get a desktop linux running on this thing so that it will
>outperform an install of win2k pro. Don't get me wrong, at the command
>level, most distros fly with a few minor tweeks, but when I want to run a
>gui app or two, things slow down to a crawl.
>
>The only two gui based apps that I need are the obvious ones: a graphical
>web browser (sorry, I had my fill of lynx) and a word processing utility
>(i.e. Open Office). The word processing is secondary, but the web browser
>is a must. I know that there is an issue with web browsers for linux
>matching the raw speed of IE. And as much as I hate to say it, I think
>it's just the simple result of building the browser in at the kernel
>level, and to my knowledge, no one has built a browser into the base
>libraries much less into the kernel level of a linux distribution.
>
>At any rate, I'm trying to do what I can with what I have. I've tried
>gnome, kde, and windowmaker with a variety of browsers. The window
>managers and the browsers all load and run fine, but they seem to have the
>same major issue with rendering graphics quickly and efficiently on a web
>page. I thought this may have had to do with the mozilla engine so I tried
>opera as well. It wasn't any better. I've also tossed around the idea of
>doing a minimal install with the base X libraries. Then using the Star
>Office desktop gui as the window manager for graphical interaction. I
>haven't tried it, yet, but I'm guessing that it won't make a difference if
>the problem is inherent with the underlying X libraries themselves.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas or is this machine doomed to run windows
>forever?
>
>-Keir
>
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