Atila, I believe you are correct re: Netscape being the time/mem culprit. I have a 486DX66 w/24Mb RAM Debian test box and use fvwm2 (a.k.a. fvwm now) quite nicely. I installed Netscape6 and, yes, it worked but like molasses in January.
I opted for removing Netscape completely and using a very nice text-based browser called w3m-ssl on my Debian box. BTW, w3m-ssl is a potato package. Since I also have a PII machine, I do my Netscape browsing on that. If you have the luxury of a second machine, you might want to try going that route on your 486. Otherwise, sure, more mem never hurts, but as I recall Netscape6 also took up 41Mb of hard disk space. That was the deciding factor here. montefin Atila Nemet wrote: > > AN> Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there > AN> window manager which is low on system resources so I > AN> could set up X on this 486? > > From, the help I've got, it seems that the problem is not with the > window manager itself (since there are people who are using X with various > window managers on weaker machines), but with the programs I use. > I have set up fvwm and it ran quite ok. as long as I was using some > little applications, but when I started Netscape. It lookd like the > time had sopped. Would a memory upgrade help in this case? > > Atila > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- In Life Timing is everything; in Linux Permissions is everything. http://www.montefin.com/~montefin/ (up 24/7) http://finux.com:8080 (our Zope experiment...evenings & weekends) http://finux.com:8085 (our XML adventures...evenings & weekends)
