From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 9 3:50:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edwin.mounet.com (edwin.mounet.com [216.145.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 980BB37B407 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 03:50:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hornback@wireco.net) Received: (qmail 11027 invoked by uid 0); 9 Jul 2001 10:47:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tomcat) (216.145.86.73) by mounet.com with SMTP; 9 Jul 2001 10:47:55 -0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Danny K Ho" <99053811@day.uws.edu.au>, Subject: RE: FreeBSD 4.3 Desktop Query Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 06:48:18 -0400 Message-ID: <003401c10864$a9e20bc0$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-Reply-To: <200107081327.f68DRZ918426@day.uws.edu.au> Importance: Normal 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 'lo Danny, Point of personal preference here, but for a configuration like that (since you don't mention what video card you have), I'd be inclined to throw OLVWM on it and call it good. None of the glitz and glamour of running something like Gnome or KDE, but none of the overhead either. I run OLVWM on my laptop (P133/32 Megs). --- Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Danny K Ho > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 12:28 AM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD 4.3 Desktop Query > > > - Hello > > - I am running FreebSD 4.3 on a old Pentium Pro with 32 MB of RAM > - Which X Windows Manager should I install > > - fvm2? > - KDE 2? > - Gnom? > > -Looking rorward to your feedback. > > > danny > > 999053811@scholar.uws.edu.au > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message