Thanks a lot KC, Forrest and Ben! (In order of appearance :-) )
All of you were right noting that KDE's the wrong option for small systems. I guess I
need to learn a lot more about graphic environments so I think I'll try all the ones
you suggested. Last night I tried twm by accident and seems a quite primitive but
light interface. Let's see what happens with the rest.
Thanks again
Francisco
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:11:07PM -0500, Francisco Neira wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For some time I'd been using RH6.1 with KDE on an IBM Thinkpad 380ED (32MB RAM, P166
>processor, 2.1GB disk, blah, blah)
>
> Don't ask me, but I don't want to throw it yet :)
Well, when you are ready, just toss it my way! ;^)
> Matter is that in order to make some test I upgraded it to RH7.1 and seems that KDE
>requires MUCH more RAM to run because the machine went soooo slow that it is barely
>usable.
Like yours, my machines don't handle Gnome or KDE very well. Here are
my suggestions (all of these are on the Redhat 7.1 CDs):
IceWM : Nice, light, and very quick to get used to.
WMaker: Took longer to get accustomed to, but is worth the effort.
Fvwm2: At first glance, I thought it was terrible. :) But then I
discovered that you can configure it to the hilt. You just have to.
The default configuration is not too good IMHO.
All of those window managers run well on my machines
(486/16,P100/32,P125/40,P200/128).
Hope this helps,
Ben
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