Re: [Re: [RE: [newbie] Performance...]]
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, I tried Blackbox, but I can't get the "feel" for it as I do with xfce. To each his/her own, right? There's more than one way to do it. The linux way :) Paul === Hey Paul, I couldn't agree more :o) That's one of the genuine beauties of this OS. I have students who love WM and swear by it; others who prefer Gnome, two who wouldn't swtich from KDE 1.1.2 for anything (not even KDE 2), and a son who has recently discovered E! and has adopted that (saw me using it one evening and became curious). One of the things I really like about this distro is that most of these are included by default so you can experiment. Some call it bloat, but hey if ya got the disk space, why not ;o) ? On one of my older laptops where space is a concern, I run Caldera 2.2 and can only use KDE 1.1.1 and that works just fine also shrug. Best, Mike "What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?" --W. C. Fields Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [RE: [newbie] Performance...]
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Mark Johnson wrote: I'm running 7.2 KDE on a PII400/288MB and it's a slow as crap! Especially while running with a terminal window, Netscape, Pan, and XMMS. KDE kills the performance. I use xfce, and things go very fast. 128Mb ram and the same processor. 3 netscapes, xmms, Pan, 5 rxvt's (terminals), wordperfect, burning a cd, all at once, no problem. Paul xfce looks rather nice. but if you'd like truly "small and fast" albeit, w/o any eye candy, try Blackbox. It's my desktop of preference. It launches almost instantaneously. When I feel like eye-candy, i launch E. Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and dreadful idolatry took place there!" Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
Re: [RE: [newbie] Performance...]
On 29 Nov 2000, Michael Scottaline wrote: KDE kills the performance. I use xfce, and things go very fast. 128Mb ram and the same processor. 3 netscapes, xmms, Pan, 5 rxvt's (terminals), wordperfect, burning a cd, all at once, no problem. Paul xfce looks rather nice. but if you'd like truly "small and fast" albeit, w/o any eye candy, try Blackbox. It's my desktop of preference. It launches almost instantaneously. When I feel like eye-candy, i launch E. Mike Hi Mike, I tried Blackbox, but I can't get the "feel" for it as I do with xfce. To each his/her own, right? There's more than one way to do it. The linux way :) Paul -- If you want to know how god thinks about money look at the people that have it. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
