Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap. | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:16:33 -0700 (PDT) | From | (Colonel) |
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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.
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