On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 07:26:35PM -1000, xxd wrote:
> You need to switch window managers... check out
> http://freshmeat.net for a list of good ones. ( I like
> blackbox myself. ) Gnome or KDE must be appauling at 300 MHZ.
> ;(
Yes, switching to a lighter weight window manager will give
you the best bang for the buck. If you can afford it, add more
memory.
> Maybe not an option, another option would be looking into
> a more "bare-bones" distro such as crux/gentoo/ maybe even
> freebsd?
Gentoo and FreeBSD may give you a speed bump because you get the
opportunity to recompile all the binaries. So every?hing you run
is optimized for your CPU. But, I would not call them bare-bones.
8000+ ports is rather large.
0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/> wc -l /usr/ports/INDEX
8251 /usr/ports/INDEX
-Vince
