Quoting "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:21:39PM -0700, John Sunderhaus wrote: > > > But your point is well taken; you can productively run X on an > > underpowered machine - but I'll bet you aren't happy. > > I'd bet quite the contrary. Chances are they use it because they *are* > happy with it. I much prefer my Blackbox based X configuration to > anything else available for Windows, Mac, or Linux. Why? Because it's > what *I* chose. Not what someone else decided I should use. Does it > have all the latest eye candy? Hell *no*. That's one of the main > reasons I use it. I don't want all that extra overhead (and yes, my > system has more than enough processor power to spare). The point is, > it's all about choice.
Ditto. My PII-366 ThinkPad with 128MB RAM runs Fluxbox on X like a champ. So does my Athlon 1.2Ghz desktop with 768MB RAM; I don't feel the need to run a bloated desktop environment simply because my hardware can handle it. M. Kirchhoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]