Re: Need help choosing WM for old machines

[hilaire@iname.com]

Strange, I also have Gnome with 64 Mb machine and it's working quite
niceley. Also last friday, I installed at school (32Mb Ram) Gnome with
Linux 2.2 and really get a boost compare with KDE and Linux 2.0. A good
point with Gnome, you can use Drag'n Drop between netscpae and Gnome.


Hilaire Fernandes 
Dr Geo project http://www.drgeo.seul.org

On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Daniel Glenn wrote:

> I forgot to mention. We installed it on our 64 meg machine up stairs,
> and Enlightenment with GNOME ran jsut as slow! Switched to WindowMaker,
> and it ran a 100 times faster. Don't know if it was RedHat, or our
> installation. But we'll probably just run Windowmaker.
> 
> Michael A Hamblin wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 27 May 1999, Daniel Glenn wrote:
> > 
> > > We just installed RedHat 6.0 on our old Pentium-100s and X Runs SLOW.
> > > GNOME with Enlightenmnet doesn't cut it in only 16 megs of RAM
> > > (especially considering that we have onboard VGA which means the Video
> > > has to share RAM with the Main system)
> > 
> > Those machines should be powerful enough to do KDE or GNOME fine.
> > Particularly with Netscape, I believe you will find that 16Mb of RAM
> > doesn't cut it no matter how fast the machine is. If you want to run
> > Netscape at all, upgrade your RAM.
> > 
> > That aside, Blackbox is optimized for speed and then looks, and it runs
> > very well on 486-66s. But unless you get more RAM, that setup will always
> > be slow. Netscape is just too much of a hog. I used a 486-120 with 16Mb of
> > RAM and it was usable with KDE, until I started Netscape. And Netscape
> > runs poorly on my quad-P166/128Mb... can't wait until Mozilla is released.
> > The M5 of Mozilla is real nice, if it wasn't alpha code I would use it
> > for everything. I did an hour of solid heavy web browsing and didn't even
> > get it to hiccup. Netscape hiccups on every machine I've used it on just
> > loading a page with a table.
> > 
> > --
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