Howard Gibson <hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> writes:
On 20 Aug 2003 21:41:01 -0400 Tim Writer <tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
Howard Gibson <hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> writes:
My first strategy for speeding things up is to run FVWM2 instead of Gnome or KDE. There are a couple of other small window managers out there, but I have a long history with FVWM. There are a couple of other FVWM freaks in this user group, so you can get help.
There was some talk about running an FVWM demo at one of the user meetings. Is there any more interest in this?
Consider xfce4 instead. It's a lightweight, functional desktop, reminiscent of CDE. RAM hungry apps like OpenOffice or Mozilla will still be unwieldy (without a RAM upgrade) but you can run a decent desktop on this machine if you choose your components carefully. Debian is arguably a better choice for a low power machine as you have far more ready made packages to choose from; thus, you can better experiment with tradoffs between footprint and functionality. Be prepared, however, to spend a good bit of time customizing it to your liking.
Tim,
I tried XFCE briefly a couple of years ago.
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