On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Dirk Uys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my system >> successfully. I only downloaded the Live CD, But the live CD only contains a >> limited number of packages and... I do not have an internet connection at >> home since its very expensive for us. >> >> Is their any possible way that i can get a Software collection downloaded >> for my Gentoo box . I have a P3 with 256 RAM when xfce is combined with >> Gnome my PC runs slow. I am not much of a xfce/Gnome /KDE fan but since I >> have no way of getting packages in to my PC I am facing difficulties. What do you mean "xfce combined with Gnome" ? > > As a side note: for a PC running on low specs I would recommend using > a window manager like WindowMaker or IceWM. Both of them are very > lightweight.
Xfce is light enough. I'm using it right now, and I like it very much. It is very lightweight, occupies negligible RAM, and also occupies little disk space: equery size xfce-base/ * size of xfce-base/libxfce4mcs-4.4.2 Total files : 44 Total size : 285.76 KiB * size of xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.4.2 Total files : 68 Total size : 527.11 KiB * size of xfce-base/libxfcegui4-4.4.2 Total files : 114 Total size : 1287.49 KiB * size of xfce-base/thunar-0.9.0-r2 Total files : 530 Total size : 9990.27 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce-mcs-manager-4.4.2 Total files : 199 Total size : 601.28 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce-mcs-plugins-4.4.2-r1 Total files : 228 Total size : 1494.46 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.4.2-r1 Total files : 87 Total size : 483.62 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce4-4.4.2 Total files : 4 Total size : 5.57 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.4.2 Total files : 290 Total size : 1638.96 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.4.2 Total files : 259 Total size : 2215.87 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.4.2-r2 Total files : 254 Total size : 4127.12 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfwm4-4.4.2 Total files : 1435 Total size : 3048.79 KiB equery size xfce-extra/ [ Searching for packages matching xfce-extra/... ] * size of xfce-extra/exo-0.3.4 Total files : 324 Total size : 3297.70 KiB * size of xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer-4.4.2 Total files : 188 Total size : 624.86 KiB And look at how little memory it consumes: $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 884 78 806 0 6 43 -/+ buffers/cache: 28 855 Swap: 972 0 972 This is from a just-booted system, with a gkrellm open, some daemons, and an aterm (used to run the command 'free'). So only 28 MB used, total (including Xfce plus everything else) (although I imagine the is some kernel memory that does not go in this figure; I'm not an OS expert). There is no need to go the path of Fluxbox; Xfce delivers all the speed and featherweight you need, while being very ease to use, vastly configurable, feature-rich, and good-looking. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds