On Monday 01 September 2003 22:46, Michael Heironimus wrote: [snip] > If you want to run X on an older machine you should pick out a basic > window manager you like and use that. If you're really stuck on the idea > of a desktop environment you could also try XFce. Decide what it is that > you think you really need from KDE and see what else will give you that. > You can still use GNOME and KDE apps if the base systems are installed. > There isn't much that you can't do (and usually do better) without GNOME > or KDE.
as desktops, kde and gnome are complete hogs, both of which seem obsessively determined to win a race that no-one beyond their developers needs to give a rat's ass about. xfce is good. icewm is even less of a resource drain, and fluxbox is also excellent, but pwm is really the leanest window manager ever. personally, i'm hooked on kmail, which involves a whole lot more of kde than i'd rather have to use, but with pwm on a p2/166 laptop with 64megs of ram, it all works out just fine. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
