On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 14:13, Austin Acton wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 03:49, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 22:26, Sander Jonkers aka Surfer wrote:
> > > Do we have to vote for something small and essential as IceWM? I can't
> > > use my 400Mhz/64MB laptop without it.
> > 
> > I use my 400Mhz/128MB laptop with GNOME, but maybe I'm just a masochist
> 
> My PII/300MHz/128MB laptop runs GNOME just fine.  As long as I don't

Wow, 128 MB?! That must twice as capable as my machine. ;-(

> open Mozilla or OpenOffice, it's not that bad.  I find the slowest part
> of the system is the hard drive anyway.  Besides, when I used blackbox,

My hard drive must be slow also: as soon as swap (on the hard drive) is
needed, the slow down is enormours.

> Mozilla and OpenOffice didn't open any faster anyway.

I run IceWM, knode and evolution locally. Running Galeon on top of that
is horribly slow, so I do a 'ssh' to my BigMachine upstairs (0.75Ghz,
0.75GB RAM) and run Galeon from there.

Sander



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