Re: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.

[Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>]

On Monday 25 June 2001 18:16, Colonel wrote:
> In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote:
> >Further to that, I followed Alan's lead and installed xfce.  My laptop,
> > which was really suffering under Gnome with 64 meg (much more so under
> > KDE) is suddenly light on its feet.  Not to mention that it built from
> > source in under 10 minutes and installed with zero 'interesting
> > problems'.
> >
> >After another year of optimizing the kernel to handle bloatware better,
> > and at the same time encouraging the 'big desktop' side of Linux to
> > follow the lead of these lightweight alternatives[1] we will be looking
> > pretty good.
>
> Had you tried fvwm-1.24r (the original) ?  It was designed long ago to
> be lean and fast on the desktop.  I know it whips KDE.

Yes, I did.  It's even faster than xfce but there's one problem: it just 
isn't very much like a modern desktop.  xfce is, to a surprising degree, like 
a modern desktop.  It's roughly equivalent to W95 I'd say - more 
sophisticated in some areas, less in others.  Oh, did I mention I haven't run 
into a bug yet?  It's true.

--
Daniel