[Gllug] Newbie needs help!

[Mike Brodbelt]

Huw Lynes wrote:
> 
>>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. 

A while ago I had a redhat install running X and fvwm on a 486/25 with
8Mb RAM. It's possible, but it's not an experience I'd recommend,
especially with today's hardware prices. Unless the OP's budget is
extremely limited I'd strongly suggest a newer machine, or at least
taking the RAM up to the max the motherboard will support. I'm sure it's
possible to pick up old 72pin memory cheap on eBay.

Mike.

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