[Wylug-discuss] Re: what is the difference?

[Mark P. Conmy]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
> For a low memory machine like that XFCE would suit better than gnome or
> KDE, and you may also wish to choose other tools that are more
> parsimonious with memory - ie rxvt/xterm or the xfce equivalent rather
> than gnome-terminal (which is a memory hog), maybe a different web
> browser to firefox. Ideally stick to the XFCE tools and avoid KDE/gnome
> as either of those would pull in a great pile of additional support
> code, however if you use (say) a kde program, then you already have that
> support code loaded, so using an additional kde program would not have
> that hit again.

To be honest, I use twm and xterms on a number of my systems, but I'm
old-fashioned. ;-)

Mark