On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:38:03PM -0800, Robert Eanes wrote:
> Thanks for all the input guys. I hadn't realized that
> the resources needed to run KDE or Gnome were quite as
> large. I've just climbed out of a 2 year hole working
> with macs so... there ya go. The system I am using
> for Ubuntu is a 400mhz celeron with 128m of ran and a
> 6 gig HD. From what I'm hearing, I was doing well
> just to have it running as well as it is. Tweaking
> with HDparm and setting swappiness to 10 quadrupled
> the performance (article in the Linux Journal), but it
> is still sluggish. Maybe xfce is the trick to have it
> working snappily :) It's tough to get the wife to use
> Linux when says comes back to me saying, "it's really
> slow, what did you do to the computer". It's only
> then that she realized that it wasn't running Winders.
Xfce is a good choice. There is also blackbox, fluxbox, icewm, and
others. These are some of the more popular low-resource window managers.
(Seems like I saw a table somewhere where someone had compared the
resources needed for each of the major desktops, but I can't recall
where it was.) Your KDE/GNOME apps may still be sluggish, just because
they're dragging a lot of library weight with them. But at least the
desktop itself won't be so slow.
Paul
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