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
