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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..

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