From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
phillips@bonn-fries.net (Daniel Phillips)
Cc: pzycrow@hotmail.com (John Nilsson), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:27:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0106250027530E.00430@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15EI7N-0000Zr-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15EI7N-0000Zr-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On Monday 25 June 2001 00:12, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > So when you speak of being able to run on 386:es I still have problem
> > > starting X on 266MHz with 32Mb mem. This should not be =)
> >
> > That's true. Usually, X by itself starts pretty fast. Just try 'xinit',
> > no parameters. KDE and Gnome both need to go on a diet, especially KDE.
> > They
>
> The trick if you want a good GUI environment in 32Mb is to run something
> like XFce (www.xfce.org). My 32Mb test/devel box I use to prove stuff still
> works sanely on non obscene computers is very happy with XFce and with
> BrowseX as the web browser.
>
> That is mostly not a kernel problem. With XFce 3.8.3 the 32Mb box flies,
> and its happy doing stuff like web browsing while playing dvd movies with
> the Creative DXR2 overlay card, even though its only a Cyrix MII 233
/me downloads xfce
--
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-24 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-24 20:51 Some experience of linux on a Laptop John Nilsson
2001-06-24 20:35 ` David Lang
2001-06-25 3:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-25 6:09 ` David Lang
2001-06-25 8:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-24 21:08 ` Fabian Arias
2001-06-24 21:22 ` Android
2001-06-24 21:22 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-06-25 17:47 ` Joseph Pingenot
2001-06-24 21:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-24 22:11 ` Jeff Chua
2001-06-24 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-24 22:11 ` William Stearns
2001-06-24 22:38 ` Hua Zhong
2001-06-25 3:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-24 21:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-24 22:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-24 22:27 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2001-06-24 21:59 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-24 22:26 ` Jeff Chua
2001-06-24 23:14 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-06-24 23:17 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-25 9:04 ` Helge Hafting
2001-06-25 10:09 ` PALFFY Daniel
2001-06-27 9:07 ` Julien Laganier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-25 0:25 Dieter Nützel
2001-06-25 9:21 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-06-25 13:19 John Nilsson
[not found] <fa.inojkfv.1tiu4gb@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.gblj07v.1blumpa@ifi.uio.no>
2001-06-29 20:12 ` John Golubenko
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