[svlug] windowing on a slow machine

[Tejas Kokje]

My old P3 machine nicely runs Enlightenment 17. I run it on Mandriva ( name
sucks ,distro rocks). You can check the live cd offering E17 at
http://www.elivecd.org/


--
Tejas Kokje
Network Software Engineer
HTTP-ICAP Engineering Group
Blue Coat Systems Inc.
Sunnyvale, California
http://www.bluecoat.com

On 9/28/05, ivo <cervantes_vive at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> i have a brick of a laptop, quite old. KDE was so
> painful I evaluated several lighter window managers
> and settled on xfce. its very light weight and
> unobtrusive. very low on the eye candy and
> configuration tho.
>
> www.xfce.org <http://www.xfce.org>
>
> i see there is a live cd image you might want to try
> out
>
> http://www.os-cillation.com/index.php?id=6&L=5
>
> --- bruce coston <jane_ikari at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Since you said in an early
> > > post that the
> > > machine is slow with minimal memory available, you
> > > might try icewm,
> > > (which is downloadable from debian.org <http://debian.org>, or through
> > > apt-get, etc.,) and
> > you might wanna try turning off the extra eye candy
> > from the kde control center before you decide to
> > switch away.
> >
> > Also Re. superusergroup meeting, the bay LISA board
> > has noticed and discussed it, why people here care
> > mystifies me?
> >
> >
> >
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