On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:10:48 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:05:20AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: > > > So I'm wondering if I've got some binaries that aren't optimized for > > my system somehow, or this is just the state of GNOME. If so, I'm > > going to take a serious second look at ditching the whole 'desktop > > environment' altogether and go with something like IceWM. > > That seems to be about the state of things. The "desktop environments" > are quite bulky. There are quite a few nice things about them, but they > do take quite a bit of room (WRT to both HD and memory space). I > wouldn't attempt to run any of the DEs on most of my systems. However a > sensible combination of window manager and applications work fine. > Define the features that you need from your applications and then take a > look for applications that provide them with small foot prints. You'll > be amazed at how little memory and drive space you need to consume. The third DE; Xfce is well worth a look, V3 is quite usable if a bit too much like CDE in looks and will run happily on a PII 266 with 64MB. V4 doesn't yet have a session manager but is starting to look very nice, I've not tried it on the 266, but it runs fine on a PII 333 with 192 which is quite glutinous with KDE3.1. James -- James Tappin, O__ "I forget the punishment for using [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- \/` Microsoft --- Something lingering http://www.tappin.me.uk/ with data loss in it I fancy" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
