[Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

[Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant]

on my former PC (a Pentium 133 MHz with 64 RAM) i had to use very lean
window managers.  Window-maker was not too bad, and i'm told blackbox is
soft on resources as well.  twm is very ugly but economic as well, if i'm
not mistaken.


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	From:  Paul Millar [SMTP:paulm@astro.gla.ac.uk]
	Sent:  29 January 2003 11:06
	To:  scotlug
	Subject:  Re: [Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

	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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