Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:14:59 -0400 From: "DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI" <dmagnuszewski@mandtbank.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making FreeBSD More Lean/Efficient On Older Laptop... Message-ID: <s4c8bc75.063@comrcm01intgwia.mandtbank.com>
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I decided on XFCE4 (at least for now). The install/setup was real easy - which was nice. I installed it last night, and I am quite happy with it. I like that the main philosophy of the project is to cater to the older, slower, lower memory machines. I definitely noticed a significant difference between Gnome and XFCE performance. Thanks again for all the suggestions. -Dan >>> "Julian Stecklina" <der_julian@web.de> 07/25/06 2:55 PM >>> 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. Regards, -- Julian Stecklina C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string. (Jamie Zawinski) _______________________________________________ freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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