From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 17 23:16:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 728B337B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:16:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from kraid.nerim.net (kraid.nerim.net [62.4.16.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF9F043ED1 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:16:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from raphael.dinge@ohmforce.com) Received: from localhost (ohmforce.net1.nerim.net [62.212.106.14]) by kraid.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58EDF40EF2 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 08:05:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 08:16:37 +0100 Subject: Re: Going from Windows to X - suggestions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rapha=EBl_Ding=E9?= To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20021218053440.68128.qmail@web13805.mail.yahoo.com> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Install KDE and/or gnome. Your call. > > I'm new to FreeBSD myself, having used blackbox window > manager on a P133 with 48MB of RAM. Though it's not > impossible, with only 16MB or RAM, GNOME or KDE would > probably be pushing it; you'd be using your swap slice > continuously. I recommend blackbox, though it's not > as full-featured as the above. However, it's quite > easy to set up. I'm not sure that this won't do it either. I had made an installation of FreeBSD on old laptop with 32MB Ram. X was taking about all of it, I did put WMaker on top of it, which did not take too much memory itself. I had seen that 32MB was definitively not enough, but even 48MB would have been great ! Anyway, If you find some solutions with 16 MB Ram, I would be happy to know it, since I can't use my old laptop for now. Thanks, Raphael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message