Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 16:01:21 James wrote: > caveat emptor... That's not a very helpful comment on this list, where we all try to help one another. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/30/2010 09:20 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:17:00 -0700, Bill Longman wrote: > >> I agree with Grant and others. XFCE is the other WM on my machines. On >> my old PIII with 256MB RAM, it's really the only option. KDE for the >> ones with the power, but that's far from "li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:17:00 -0700, Bill Longman wrote: > I agree with Grant and others. XFCE is the other WM on my machines. On > my old PIII with 256MB RAM, it's really the only option. KDE for the > ones with the power, but that's far from "light". I really like LXDE now, I use it on my netboo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/30/2010 08:03 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-06-30, Shoka wrote: > >> I'm trying to build kind of a minimal gentoo setup with X support. All I >> need is >> >> - X11 and a Window Manager >> - Mozilla Firefox >> - Lighttpd >> >> I use Gnome at this time. > > Gnome?!?! > > That's like s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:03:27 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > Gnome?!?! > > That's like saying "all I needed was a couple of deck chairs, so I > bought the Queen Mary". PMSL :) -- Neil Bothwick All things in moderation, ESPECIALLY moderation. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Shoka
On 30.06.2010 17:03, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Gnome?!?! > > That's like saying "all I needed was a couple of deck chairs, so I > bought the Queen Mary". > > One step towards smaller/lighter would be the XFCE desktop instead of > Gnome. While a lot smaller/faster than Gnuome, XFCE is still far

[gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-06-30, Shoka wrote: > I'm trying to build kind of a minimal gentoo setup with X support. All I > need is > > - X11 and a Window Manager > - Mozilla Firefox > - Lighttpd > > I use Gnome at this time. Gnome?!?! That's like saying "all I needed was a couple of deck chairs, so I bought the

[gentoo-user] Re: Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread James
Shoka gmx.ch> writes: > I'm trying to build kind of a minimal gentoo setup with X support. All I > need is > - X11 and a Window Manager > - Mozilla Firefox > - Lighttpd If I were you, I'd pose this question over at embedded-gentoo, if you really want to get serious about minimization. Gentoo-us