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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD & X
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On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 01:43:08PM +0930, a little birdie told me
that Daniel O'Connor remarked
> On 02-Jun-99 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >  I can't think of any problems I've had running KDE 1.1 or 1.1.1 - it's been
> >  very stable for me. The only thing is that it seems to be fairly
> >  memory-hungry
> >  and my machine (48MB) is swapping a lot more than I'd like.
> >  Mind you, 1.0 was -terrible- - in the first 10 minutes of my using it it ate
> >  my mouse pointer and dumped core twice.
> 
> Yuck.. well I use Enlightenment and its less fat than KDE :)

(Sorry, it's obligatory)
fullermd   428  0.0  0.6  2660 1452  v0  S    18May99   0:53.03 ctwm

Quite stable, lean, quick, easy, unobtrusive, and it really looks just as
good once you tweak it a bit.  Lot cleaner than anything I've seen out of
<insert favorite gaudy WM here>.


And I think syscons + slightly customized startx script (creating
.Xauthority record, etc) is a pretty cool looking 'login' screen  ;>



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