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chris_ak

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Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 64

Ressurecting an old laptop

Hey guys,
my HP dv6000 laptop has been having major hardware issues lately (stay away from HP laptops) and is out of commission for the time being so I dug out my old gateway.  I'm trying to make it as functional as possible with its limited resources.  I'm running a pentium 4 @ 1.6 ghz, 256 mb ram, a 32 mb ati video card, and a 20 gig harddrive.  Right now I'm running standalone openbox.

My questions:
I'm curious about awesome wm, is there any advantage in terms of the resources it uses?
Is openbox my best bet for a wm?
Also, what might be a good file manager that's light on resources?  right now I'm using thunar.
And finally, I'm trying to figure out what utility I can use to extract rar files. 
Any other suggestions to make this setup functional would be great.

Thanks!

Last edited by chris_ak (2008-04-30 03:35:25)

pogeymanz

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Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 1,020

Re: Ressurecting an old laptop

I too have a majorly faulty HP. A Compaq Presario v5000, if anyone cares to know...

I wont be buying from HP again.

Anyway, I think you've pretty got yourself set up with a usable desktop. If you want to change to another wm, it's up to your taste.

I suggest Pcmanfm as a lightweight filemanager, but Thunar is really good too. PCmanfm might be a little quicker, plus it has tabs and can put icons and wallpaper on the desktop, so it's a very good option for a wm-only system, IMO.

chris_ak

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Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 64

Re: Ressurecting an old laptop

cool, I'll give Pcmanfm a shot.  thanks

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Re: Ressurecting an old laptop

And finally, I'm trying to figure out what utility I can use to extract rar files.

unrar...

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