On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 10:54, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Guess who got root-kitted last week. > > In my defence it was only a 1 month old vulnerability in a service which > is normally firewalled (mod_ssl) on my home PC and I did know about it > within 4 hours. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I decided to try out > RH8.0. I'm not very impressed. Previously my box (266MHz K6 / 128Mb) was > running RH 7 with a Ximian Gnome desktop and all was stable, and > reasonably perky. Now I can only use the Gnome desktop if I log in as > root (and go make a coffee while it's starting). Even then, it falls > over after about 30 minutes of use. > > Until I get a new job I ain't going to be upgrading my hardware, so I'm > thinking I might just put on a different Window manager (mwm works - but > its just so ugly - and I need a launcher and file manager). Any > recommendations for something thats easy on the eyes and the hardware? > > TIA > > Colin > As previously mentioned, Xfce. I use it along with mostly GNOME apps and ROX (see my previous post) as file manager. I gave up on Nautilus a long time ago.
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