From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:30:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:29:51 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:12044 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:29:08 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: klink@clouddancer.com (Colonel), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap. Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:32:16 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <9h7ne1$1bn$1@ns1.clouddancer.com> <20010625161633.37080784D9@mail.clouddancer.com> In-Reply-To: <20010625161633.37080784D9@mail.clouddancer.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01062518321604.01008@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 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