From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 27 17:15:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92CC016A4DD for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:15:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmagnuszewski@mandtbank.com) Received: from mantrade-bh.mandtbank.com (mantrade-bh.mandtbank.com [12.19.225.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B0543D58 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:15:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmagnuszewski@mandtbank.com) X-Server-Uuid: 9786BD23-C122-4455-8D6A-31D7106C604A Message-ID: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.1 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:14:59 -0400 From: "DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-WSS-ID: 68D62B3F0UK3173538-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop... X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:15:43 -0000 I decided on XFCE4 (at least for now). The install/setup was real easy - which was nice. I installed it last night, and I am quite happy with it. I like that the main philosophy of the project is to cater to the older, slower, lower memory machines. I definitely noticed a significant difference between Gnome and XFCE performance. Thanks again for all the suggestions. -Dan >>> "Julian Stecklina" 07/25/06 2:55 PM >>> Eric Anderson writes: > On 07/25/06 13:06, Richard Arends wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:59:28PM -0400, DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote: >> Daniel, >> >>> I have FreeBSD 6.1 running on an IBM ThinkPad 600e, 64 MB RAM, PII 366 >>> MHZ. I have Gnome installed, and would like to "trim the fat" to get it >>> to run as fast and efficiently as possible. >> Drop Gnome! >> > > I was just thinking the same thing! > > There's a lot of other window manglers out there that are more > efficient than gnome. XFCE tries to be light-weight, yet full-featured. If a desktop manager is not needed, I would recommend a blackbox-like WM or WindowMaker. I also like wmii, but that's a matter of personal taste. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string. (Jamie Zawinski) _______________________________________________ freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"