[Nottingham] Which Linux?

[Andy Davidson]

On 20 Jan 2007, at 15:37, Tom Bird wrote:

> Not so slow if you don't run a fatty window manager.  Don't forget,  
> there are alternatives to gnome and kde, personally I use fluxbox  
> (a blackbox fork) which I initially started using a couple of years  
> ago as kde was beating the crap out of my laptop, but now use by  
> default even on the dual athlon.  THat said, things like firefox  
> will still require their pound of flesh, but you'll have a bit more  
> spare ram to give it.

xfce4 has some of the eye-candy with some of the neater features of  
the heavier Window Managers, too.

Nothing to stop you installing the KDE libraries and running your  
favourite KDE tools inside xfce/fluxbox/blackbox/twm, etc.,etc. too..

-a

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