From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 18:25:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 18:25:23 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:48136 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 18:25:04 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Alan Cox , phillips@bonn-fries.net (Daniel Phillips) Subject: Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:27:53 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: pzycrow@hotmail.com (John Nilsson), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106250027530E.00430@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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