[Nottingham] Which Linux?

[John]

I've got VectorLinux working on a very similar spec machine, with 
working wireless.

Andy Davidson wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> --Regards, Andy Davidson
> http://www.devonshire.it/  -  0844 704 704 7  - Sheffield, UK
> 
> 
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