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Gordon Henderson wrote: <snip> >> That's probably not a bad idea that, cache things like OpenOffice and >> Firefox in a ram disk and then run them from that. Maybe that'll >> increase the startup speed of OpenOffice a bit (although saying that, I >> installed Ubuntu on a P4 2.4GHz with 640MB Ram today and even with a >> lowish amount of memory it was still surprisingly snappy starting up >> OpenOffice). >> > > It's quick enough on the Acer with a 1.6GHz processor. Of-course vi and > latex is even faster... > > Gordon > Yup but the folks who are going to get this PC probably wouldn't know where to start with vi. I dunno, some people don't know they're born! :-) Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html