[Gllug] Light weight GUI for Linux

Christopher Mocock chris at wavestore.com
Tue Jun 23 06:17:31 UTC 2009


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 don't see any reason why either couldn't run Eclipse but I can't say 
I've tried it.

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Chris
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