From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 18 6:20:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 020C537B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 06:20:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from radzinschi.com (pcp02453773pcs.owngsm01.md.comcast.net [68.55.91.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F411843EE5 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 06:20:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marco@radzinschi.com) Received: from localhost (marco@localhost.radzinschi.com [127.0.0.1]) by radzinschi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBIEK7rM017948 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:20:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marco@radzinschi.com) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:20:07 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi To: FreeBDS-Questions Subject: Re: Going from Windows to X - suggestions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021218091547.H17922-100000@radzinschi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Rapha=EBl Ding=E9 wrote: > >> Install KDE and/or gnome. Your call. > > > > I'm new to FreeBSD myself, having used blackbox window > > manager on a P133 with 48MB of RAM. Though it's not > > impossible, with only 16MB or RAM, GNOME or KDE would > > probably be pushing it; you'd be using your swap slice > > continuously. I recommend blackbox, though it's not > > as full-featured as the above. However, it's quite > > easy to set up. > > I'm not sure that this won't do it either. I had made an > installation of FreeBSD on old laptop with 32MB Ram. > X was taking about all of it, I did put WMaker on top of it, > which did not take too much memory itself. > I had seen that 32MB was definitively not enough, but even 48MB > would have been great ! > > Anyway, If you find some solutions with 16 MB Ram, I would be > happy to know it, since I can't use my old laptop for now. > > Thanks, > > Raphael I imagine that FVWM would work. KDE and GNOME were too slow for my taste on my Pentium II 400 machine with 384 MB RAM, so I don't want to imagine how that would run with 16 MB RAM. On the other hand, that was with XFree86 4, but it might have run well had I tried it with XFree86 3. You may want to consider not running XFree86 4. http://www.fvwm.org Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com Wed Dec 18 09:15:47 EST 2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message