Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:05:18 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Don Wilde <Don@Silver-Lynx.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop... Message-ID: <20060725200518.GA53427@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <eefa2c8b0607251201o30984785pd70c21c40ccf37eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <s4c623e2.013@comrcm01intgwia.mandtbank.com> <20060725180632.GC30146@sun.unixguru.nl> <44C6632C.7010607@centtech.com> <86u055qzue.fsf@dellbeast.localnet> <eefa2c8b0607251201o30984785pd70c21c40ccf37eb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:01:42PM -0500, Don Wilde wrote: > On 7/25/06, Julian Stecklina <der_julian@web.de> wrote: > > > >Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> writes: > > > >> On 07/25/06 13:06, Richard Arends wrote: > >>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:59:28PM -0400, DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote: > >>> Daniel, > >>> > >>>> I have FreeBSD 6.1 running on an IBM ThinkPad 600e, 64 MB RAM, PII 366 > >>>> MHZ. I have Gnome installed, and would like to "trim the fat" to get > >it > >>>> to run as fast and efficiently as possible. > >>> Drop Gnome! > >>> > >> > >> I was just thinking the same thing! > >> > >> There's a lot of other window manglers out there that are more > >> efficient than gnome. > > > >XFCE tries to be light-weight, yet full-featured. If a desktop manager > >is not needed, I would recommend a blackbox-like WM or WindowMaker. I > >also like wmii, but that's a matter of personal taste. > > > > I have always found that the original FVWM, v 1.24, is the leanest and most > easily configurable WM out there. I've used it on anything from 486SX to > P-4, and it does the job. My only complaint is that the maximize buttons > don't quite work. However, the ease of making menus and things like that > make it really shine in a lot of 'lean machine' apps. Is FVWM Gnome and KDE complient? IOW, do Gnome/KDE apps play-nice or work with a min of yelps to stderr? I'm still using CTWM which is very customizable, altho it takes know-how. I have every GUI app niced down to < -15, so on my slower systems things work fairly well. If you can figure out howto run Gnome with most things niced low, that mght help. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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