From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 25 18:55:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FCD016A4DA for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:55:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A5C243D58 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:55:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G5S3n-0003zi-TK for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:55:16 +0200 Received: from efficio.wh29.tu-dresden.de ([141.30.207.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:55:15 +0200 Received: from der_julian by efficio.wh29.tu-dresden.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:55:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: Julian Stecklina Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:55:05 +0200 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <86u055qzue.fsf@dellbeast.localnet> References: <20060725180632.GC30146@sun.unixguru.nl> <44C6632C.7010607@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: efficio.wh29.tu-dresden.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) XEmacs/21.5-b27 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:W5j+TSm5E+hNomTFRxwvqil5a5I= Sender: news Subject: Re: Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop... X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:55:27 -0000 Eric Anderson writes: > On 07/25/06 13:06, Richard Arends wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:59:28PM -0400, DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote: >> Daniel, >> >>> I have FreeBSD 6.1 running on an IBM ThinkPad 600e, 64 MB RAM, PII 366 >>> MHZ. I have Gnome installed, and would like to "trim the fat" to get it >>> to run as fast and efficiently as possible. >> Drop Gnome! >> > > I was just thinking the same thing! > > There's a lot of other window manglers out there that are more > efficient than gnome. XFCE tries to be light-weight, yet full-featured. If a desktop manager is not needed, I would recommend a blackbox-like WM or WindowMaker. I also like wmii, but that's a matter of personal taste. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string. (Jamie Zawinski)