<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
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