Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:11:50 +0100 From: Alex Dyas <ADyas@twowaytv.com> To: so@server.i-clue.de, "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Performance issues and a funky telnetd error... Message-ID: <911D8F660DF6D411B61F00500462BA01B08211@exchange.twowaytv.co.uk>
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> > 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 I've found that blackbox wm is very light on resources (see ports). also make sure you don't use large resource hungry background images. alex.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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