[PLUG] Morning Slugishness
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
znmeb at cesmail.net
Thu Jul 27 14:56:54 UTC 2006
Rich Shepard wrote:
> I agree that using KDE will slow down everything; so will Gnome. On
> an old
> workstation (with 32M RAM), I tried running Knoppix, but it refused to
> load
> KDE (too little memory). I figured out the switch to use at invocation to
> have Knoppix use xfce instead, and it worked happily away. Of course,
> since
> we'd been using xfce we never noticed the memory limitations.
Wait till XFCE 4.4 comes out. It's still lighter than KDE, but I think
you can prune Gnome to the point where it's competitive with XFCE 4.4.
Stick with XFCE 4.2 if you want a light "real desktop".
Of course, *I* switched to WindowMaker/GNUStep. :)
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