Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:06:02 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Performance issues and a funky telnetd error... Message-ID: <3B3AF37A.7568F6C0@i-clue.de> References: <000a01c0ffaf$ea325260$0e00000a@tomcat>
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Mobile P133 setup, "Andrew C. Hornback" schrieb: > > [snip] > > 1) [snip] Enlightenment and Gnome on it which gave extremely poor > performance. I switched to TWM with Gnome and things picked up a bit, but > still not to the point that I would like. I also have a user set up on the > machine to run KDE which is an improvement over the other two, but still not > as peppy as Windows98 (which is also on the HDD in the machine). > > Is there something out there that I could use that's really stripped down > that would still be user friendly? I'm not adverse to the idea of a spartan > user environment, I just want to use something like Star Office and Netscape > on it. icewm, xfce, as well as fvwm will do the job. Running resource hogs like KDE or gnome on such a box will only heat your swap space while you're waiting for them. Just my EUR.02 -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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