On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 00:26, Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote: > I can't agree more! > > KDE & GNOME may look nice to your eyes, but they use a lot of resources > and they pretty much render any average / mid-sized system useless. > > I regularly use a number of heavy & demanding applications (SYBASE & > ORACLE databases, VMWARE, etc.) and I recently decided to switch from > KDE to WindowMaker only to see a significant improvement in > responsiveness and performance. > > My recommendation to everybody: step away from those heavy window > managers (KDE/GNOME), if you really want to use your systems to their > full power (unless, of course, you have the extra money to buy the best > CPU and lots of memory...). > > I wish Red Hat included some alternatives to the well-known heavy > horses, like SuSE does (I don't want to go away from RH, though, because > it is good and stable as a server...). > > I would like to give BlackBox a try... > > Where can I find RH-ready RPMS? Are there any?
Blackbox and Fluxbox are quite easily comiled on your RH box, and preferable to the RPM's as they're built "for your system" - hence optimised for your system - and they work like a charm - as well as does the new XFCE4 - a bit "cuter" without all the overhead...still blazing fast... -- Wed Jun 25 08:40:01 EST 2003 08:40:01 up 8:26, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.14, 0.10 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Thirteen at a table is unlucky only when the hostess has only twelve chops. -- Groucho Marx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
