I am far from being an expert in Linux issues, but I tried Blackbox in
my Penthium-I machine.
IMHO, Tt's a real nice piece of hacking and intelligence.
The whole package is less than 200 kb. and it has easy interface with
simple and easy to configure menus. You may setup as many virtual
desktops as you can.
It incredibly include some "themes". Supports up to 36 bits per pixel
and has just two binary files.
You'll like to try it for sure, even I think version 1.0 is not ready
yet.
I guess what you'll need is a "light" window manager, like fvwm2,
AnotherLevel, maybe WindowMaker... but I like blackbox very much and
it's a good choice for low performance machines.
I'm sure that my counseling deserves what I usually read here:
"just my $0.02"
:)
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José Albores
Blais Klucznik wrote:
>
> Hi to the group.
>
> Although I have been reading the group messages for some time now this
> is my first message to the group.
>
> I wonder if anyone who may have tried a similar configuration of
> equipment as above has experienced a result similar to that of which I
> will describe when attempting to run X-Windows and Linuxconf in a
> terminal window?
>
> I have RedHat v6 and when in the Command mode the OS executes as fast
> as DOS does when I boot up in DOS. When I start X-Windows I find that
> X-Windows is quite a bit slower than Win95 on the same machine. Then,
> while in X-Windows, I switch to a terminal and try Linuxconf, Linuxconf
> is simply unusable.
>
> To give you an idea: if I am in Linuxconf and click on PPP in order to
> configure PPP it takes about 5 minutes for the first screen on the right
> pane to materialize.
>
> It appears that one can barely run X-Windows on a 486 and simply
> shouldn't even consider running Linuxconf in a terminal window. Its
> speed is simply is not acceptable. This is what I have experienced.
>
> Any comments from the group?
>
> Blais Klucznik
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
