agreed ! but the thing is we cannot change the kernel. Also i don't have animation stuff or sound running on my system.
ashutosh. -----Original Message----- From: Rahul Saxena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:34 PM To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] suggest a speedy window manager On Monday 22 December 2003 12:33 pm, Nasikkar, Ashutosh wrote: > I am a relatively newbie to linux. > The problem is that i am using gnome as my desktop, > which seems to have slowed down my system considerably. *i would suggest you try and cut down on the "eye candy" remove the animated everything... the show contents of window while dragging.. the window border styles... icons in the K menu and other stuff. No Arts sound server... * use 2.6.0 its preety good for desktop interactivity. i am using 2.6.0 on a PII 350MHz and the bloat of redhat 9 run preety okay. with 2.6.0 and removing the above features. * i am doing all this with KDE, rahul -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
