Re: Need help choosing WM for old machines

[Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire@seul.org>]

Le jeu, 27 mai 1999, vous avez écrit :
> > Question from White Horse in Taiwan:
> > 
> > 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)
> > 
> > So the question is, Which Window Manager can we use that will allow us
> > to do these things:
> > Run Netscape (composer), and GIMP so that we can create Web Pages.
> > 
> > What simple file manager would be best? 
> > 
> > Thanks for you help.
> 
> For 16MB the basic tvtwm, cvtwm, etc. Just don't bother with
> GNOME or KDE.   Those are basically for 'drag-n-drop'.  Netscape, Gimp,
> and most office applications (StarOffice,Applixware) should also run
> without problems on a simple window manager.

Maybe Window Maker could be a good choice also ?


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Hilaire Fernandes
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