From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 21:53:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D6837B419 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 21:53:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NSir-00010F-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 05:53:25 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id 2657C117C; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 06:53:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 06:53:24 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X very slow Message-ID: <20020107055324.GG1368@raggedclown.net> References: <200201070408.XAA00705@anansi.vpha.health.ufl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200201070408.XAA00705@anansi.vpha.health.ufl.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:08:51PM -0500, sridharv@ufl.edu wrote: > I have a machine with very modest hardware 32MB RAM and > 500Mhz processor. My x sessions are very slow. So is my > browsing. Mozilla takes long time to load. I ran KDE > with Enlightenment and things were worse. I tried Gnome > with sawfish and things seem better. You have enough processing power, but not really enough memory for KDE (Gnome is somewhat less demanding) .. but KDE is no longer viable on small memory machines. Enlightenment is one pig of a machine killer in it's own right. There are quite a few lightweight alternatives, some of which are also pleasant to use, I like WindowMaker myself, but there are several others. You can generally still use KDE apps with them. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message