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Thanat0s

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From: France

Registered: 2006-10-27

Posts: 5

Making a lightweight Arch

Hi all !

I plan to install Arch on an old Pentium II-based system. I want a lightweight desktop only for browsing & IRCing. So I'm looking for things like Openbox, Fluxbox... I want a right-click menu and a small "taskbar" to access running apps easily and that's all.

Can you help me to find the best Arch in this way for an old computer ?

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Making a lightweight Arch

Install a base system, then install xorg, openbox and pypanel, add all apps you want and you're done. Arch is very bare bone when you install it.

Thanat0s

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From: France

Registered: 2006-10-27

Posts: 5

Re: Making a lightweight Arch

Thanks, it seems it's what I'm looking for. I'll try and reply

chaosgeisterchen

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From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 550

Re: Making a lightweight Arch

Arch is optimized towards i686, isn't it? May I ask if PII is i686 or i486?

Backwards compability is always there with Arch, but I'm curious if it's optimized towards usage with PII.

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celestary
Intel Core2Duo E6300 @ 1.86 GHz
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jerek

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Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 16

Re: Making a lightweight Arch

PII is i686 ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I686

ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Re: Making a lightweight Arch

About pekwm I think pekwm is even lighter, moreover it is easy to configure and maintain.
As login manager I advice you slim.
Browsing? Opera version 7 is probably the fastest choice, but it has problems with css so it is not very usable...
IRC? It is plenty of ncurses based clients, no problem.

chaosgeisterchen

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From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 550

Re: Making a lightweight Arch

PII is i686 ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I686

Thanks for the info. Geez.. I could have looked that up by myself.

Last edited by chaosgeisterchen (2007-08-08 08:29:02)

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celestary
Intel Core2Duo E6300 @ 1.86 GHz
kernel26
KDEmod current repository

prim

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From: Wroclaw - Poland

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 47

Re: Making a lightweight Arch

Can you help me to find the best Arch in this way for an old computer ?

Search the forum, there's a lot of similar topics, for example:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34917
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=18880

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