Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:40:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Performance issues and a funky telnetd error... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106280939150.24522-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <000a01c0ffaf$ea325260$0e00000a@tomcat>
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Use windowmaker, it's pretty quick, and it's not that hard to use. (You just have to mess around with it to keep every single window from putting a little icon at the bottom of the screen). Also, KDE and GNOME aren't very good solutions if you want speed, especially with your hardware... Ken On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: > Good morning everyone... > > With some help from one of the regulars on here, I've been able to get the > new addition to my "fleet" up and running with FreeBSD. It's a laptop > (WinBook FX, Pentium 133, 32 Megs of RAM) and should fit the bill for my > needs. My problems are as follows: > > 1) First and foremost, I plan to use this machine for when I go back to > college this fall as a portable workstation type deal. Nothing big and > fancy, as I realize the hardware extremely limits it. But, at this point, > having just played around with it a little, I am not very happy with the GUI > response. > > I've tried running 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. > > 2) This is more of a networking issue, but I'm hoping someone could help me > resolve this. I've tried telnetting to the machine, and I always get the > following error: > > telnetd: All network ports in use. > > I'd really like to be able to telnet into my notebook (as crazy as that may > seem to some people). Any pointers on fixing this would be great. As far > as I can remember, I did not set the machine up with ultra tight security > from the standard install, so this should not be a problem. > > 3) There really is no #3... so far. *grins* > > Any help in these matters would be very appreciated. > > --- Andy > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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