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To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net>
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Subject: Re: Performance issues and a funky telnetd error...
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Mobile P133 setup,

"Andrew C. Hornback" schrieb:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>         1) [snip] Enlightenment and Gnome on it which gave extremely poor
> performance.  I switched to TWM with Gnome and things picked up a bit, but
> still not to the point that I would like.  I also have a user set up on the
> machine to run KDE which is an improvement over the other two, but still not
> as peppy as Windows98 (which is also on the HDD in the machine).
> 
>         Is there something out there that I could use that's really stripped down
> that would still be user friendly?  I'm not adverse to the idea of a spartan
> user environment, I just want to use something like Star Office and Netscape
> on it.

icewm, xfce, as well as fvwm will do the job.

Running resource hogs like KDE or gnome on such a box will only heat
your swap space while you're waiting for them.

Just my EUR.02
-Christoph Sold

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