Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap. | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:32:16 +0200 |
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On Monday 25 June 2001 18:16, Colonel wrote: > In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: > >Further to that, I followed Alan's lead and installed xfce. My laptop, > > which was really suffering under Gnome with 64 meg (much more so under > > KDE) is suddenly light on its feet. Not to mention that it built from > > source in under 10 minutes and installed with zero 'interesting > > problems'. > > > >After another year of optimizing the kernel to handle bloatware better, > > and at the same time encouraging the 'big desktop' side of Linux to > > follow the lead of these lightweight alternatives[1] we will be looking > > pretty good. > > Had you tried fvwm-1.24r (the original) ? It was designed long ago to > be lean and fast on the desktop. I know it whips KDE.
Yes, I did. It's even faster than xfce but there's one problem: it just isn't very much like a modern desktop. xfce is, to a surprising degree, like a modern desktop. It's roughly equivalent to W95 I'd say - more sophisticated in some areas, less in others. Oh, did I mention I haven't run into a bug yet? It's true.
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