[Gllug] Newbie needs help!

Huw Lynes huw-l at moving-picture.com
Wed Oct 20 10:24:24 UTC 2004


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:08:41 +0100
John Hearns <john.hearns at clustervision.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 10:40, Andy McCall wrote:

> > Digging around in my loft I found an old Compaq LTE Lite 4/25E (486)
> > mono laptop, 12Mb ram and have managed to upgrade the hard drive to
> > 800Mb. 

> I doubt you'll get any useable X performance on 12M though.
> I find on my 64M laptop that Gnome is painfully slow.
> I use a lightweight window manager called IceWM - there have been
> discussions on GLLUG on low-memory laptops in the past.

back when I was a student languishing on an old compaq P1 32MB, I used to use
flwm as my window manager. It is surprisingly nippy. 

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