the gnome panel consumes 20MB+ of RAM!!!! and gnome-terminal around 40MB! actually i never realized gnome was so memory-hungry, i never noticed..
On 7/22/05, Ton Dolor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian Sid on a Compaq Presario 1920 with similar specs (PII 300 + > 64MB) works fine with me. I'm using Xfce4 because, for obvious > reasons, KDE and is painfully slow. Firefox takes a bit of time to > load but once loaded it is pretty much usable. Actually, Firefox's > performance is acceptable. Xfce4 lives up to its claim as a > lightweight desktop. Despite the puny specs of my latop, the gui works > great. I tried Fedora Core 1, Xandros and Knoppix on the same laptop. > All are resource hogs. The laptop is usable but I get better > performance with Debian Sid. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
