<quote who="Ken Caldwell"> > <quote who="Rajnish"> > > > All, > > > > I've been playing with Fedora Core 3 and ubuntu - all on separate > > partitions on /dev/hdb while win2k sits on /dev/hda. Grub is installed > > on MBR. > <snip> > > I have a few questions on Ubuntu and fedora - I want to change > > to a less memory intensive window manager. I've heard of a few .. > > but how do I swap to them ? > > You could do in the "root" terminal
I forgot you will have to uncomment the line in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://archive.ubantu.com/ubantu warty universe > > aptitude install icewm icewm-themes menu > > update-menus > > then logout to the gdm display manager and select icewm from xsession > before loging in again. You will probably want to edit various > configuration files for icewm. (I could email an example if required) > > > Secondly, the startup of both Ubuntu and Fedora take considerable > > time - I mean minutes. On a standalone system, used for dialup > > internet, what are some services that can be stopped ? > > I haven't checked this out yet. > > cheers, > > Ken > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
