From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 25 18:30:02 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 F37DE16A506 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:30:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E8ED43D88 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:29:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k6PITqKd064772; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:29:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <44C6632C.7010607@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:30:04 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060612) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Arends References: <20060725180632.GC30146@sun.unixguru.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060725180632.GC30146@sun.unixguru.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1618/Mon Jul 24 20:12:40 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:30:02 -0000 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. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------