[Gllug] Light weight GUI for Linux

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:17:31AM +0100, Christopher Mocock wrote:
> Hakuna Matata wrote:
> > what kind of GUI can run on slow server with 2 GB of RAM. One of our
> > developer want to use ECLIPSE for java programming and it is really
> > memory hungry.
> > i tried GNOME and KDE and they also seems memory hungry, as i can not
> > have more memory for this server and i am looking for alternative.
> 
> XFCE is a popular choice (xfce.org). It's well supported for most Linux 
> distros. You could also look at FVWM.

I'll second XFCE.

However no mere window manager is going to make any difference to the
bloatware of Java/Eclipse.  I suspect this is your problem, and
nothing to do with GNOME or KDE.

Rich.

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