From: klink@clouddancer.com (Colonel)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Thrashing WITHOUT swap.
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:16:33 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010625161633.37080784D9@mail.clouddancer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9h7ne1$1bn$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106242133550.19801-100000@druid.if.uj.edu.pl> <3B3702B5.13554207@idb.hist.no> <01062518025100.01008@starship> <3B3702B5.13554207@idb.hist.no> <9h7ne1$1bn$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-25 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-24 19:47 Thrashing WITHOUT swap Maciej Zenczykowski
2001-06-24 20:07 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-24 21:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-25 8:13 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-06-25 16:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-25 9:21 ` Helge Hafting
2001-06-25 16:02 ` [OT] " Daniel Phillips
[not found] ` <9h7ne1$1bn$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-06-25 16:16 ` Colonel [this message]
2001-06-25 16:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-26 12:36 ` john slee
2001-06-27 12:52 ` Ookhoi
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