[Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

[Paul Millar]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Colin McKinnon wrote:
> Guess who got root-kitted last week.

   }:^>

Join the gang. I think anyone worth their salt has been "done".  It helps
to keep the healthy paranoia going.


> Anyway, to cut a long story short, I decided to try out 
> RH8.0. I'm not very impressed. Previously my box (266MHz K6 / 128Mb) was 
> running RH 7 with a Ximian Gnome desktop and all was stable, and 
> reasonably perky. Now I can only use the Gnome desktop if I log in as 
> root (and go make a coffee while it's starting). Even then, it falls 
> over after about 30 minutes of use.
> 
> Until I get a new job I ain't going to be upgrading my hardware, so I'm 
> thinking I might just put on a different Window manager (mwm works - but 
> its just so ugly - and I need a launcher and file manager). Any 
> recommendations for something thats easy on the eyes and the hardware?

Have you tried the Debian way?  I've not yet, but a friend has switched 
from RH to Debian (basically because of RH8.0) and he says its great.  I 
don't know how hardware-hungry it is, though.

Cheers,

Paul.

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